sawbones
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“Put the sawbones like me out of business.”
From The New Yorker ● Aug. 20, 2012
Robert Morley and Alastair Sim bear small resemblance to the characters Shaw had in mind, but in company with John Robinson and Felix Aylmer they make a ludicrously Aristophanic chorus of sawbones.
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Small wonder that they have been dubbed "sawbones," or that they have always hated the unpleasant word.
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Answers the sawbones: "Not unless your seeing-eye dog goes lame."
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Better be a mediocre sawbones than a mediocre paper-stainer.
From Mated from the Morgue A tale of the Second Empire by John Augustus O'Shea
"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 Arthur Ignatius Keller