sawbones
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“Put the sawbones like me out of business.”
From The New Yorker ● Aug. 20, 2012
Small wonder that they have been dubbed "sawbones," or that they have always hated the unpleasant word.
From Time Magazine Archive
Amid such scenes, sawbones of 16 nations got together last week for their first international meeting since before the war.
From Time Magazine Archive
In New Winton's collection of characters the town sawbones, Dr. Bull, stands out like a large masculine thumb.
From Time Magazine Archive
The mediocre sawbones can always take a shop, go to India, marry a sickly widow, or invent a patent medicine.
From Mated from the Morgue A tale of the Second Empire by O'Shea, John Augustus
"Well, I done just like you told me to, and them cussed sawboneses won't let me go back no more," Shade reported to Pap Himes that evening.
From The Power and the Glory by Keller, Arthur Ignatius
