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单词 sawbones
释义 sawbones slang.|ˈsɔːbəʊnz|
[f. saw v.1 + bone n.]
A surgeon.
1837Dickens Pickw. xxx, ‘What, don't you know what a Sawbones is, Sir’, enquired Mr. Weller; ‘I thought every body know'd as a Sawbones was a Surgeon.’1874R. Tyrwhitt Sketch. Club 166 The vivisectors and sawboneses.1898Rider Haggard Doctor Therne 196, I found her the affianced bride of a parish sawbones.
Hence ˈsawbonesing vbl. n. (nonce-wd.).
1870R. Broughton Red as Rose I. 196 If I had..had to earn my bread quill-driving..or sawbones-ing.
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