Associations to the word «Sawbones»

Wiktionary

SAWBONES, noun. (slang) A surgeon.

Dictionary definition

SAWBONES, noun. A physician who specializes in surgery.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope