sawbones
A surgeon; a doctor.
“Fetch the sawbones from Harley Street — the leg wants setting before nightfall.”
Note: Hotten's 1864 Slang Dictionary: ‘Sawbones, a surgeon’ — a nod to the days when amputation was a surgeon's chief trade.
A surgeon; a doctor.
“Fetch the sawbones from Harley Street — the leg wants setting before nightfall.”
Note: Hotten's 1864 Slang Dictionary: ‘Sawbones, a surgeon’ — a nod to the days when amputation was a surgeon's chief trade.