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sawboneses

sawboneses is the plural of sawbones.

Meaning of sawbones

Noun

sawbones (plural sawbones or sawboneses)

  1. (slang) A surgeon.
    • "That is wicked, or rather, villainous: Queen Madásima was a very distinguished lady, and it should not be assumed that so high a princess would become the paramour of a sawbones or a quack, and whoever believes the contrary is lying, like the base scoundrel he is.Part 1 published in 1605, Part 2 in 1615, translated in 2003, Miguel de Cervantes and translated by Edith Grossman, Don Quixote, page 189

Questions about sawboneses

What is sawboneses the plural of?
Sawboneses is the plural of sawbones.

Words near sawboneses in the dictionary

  1. sawbill
  2. sawbills
  3. sawblade
  4. sawblades
  5. sawbones
  6. sawboneses
  7. Sawbridgeworth
  8. sawbuck
  9. sawbucks
  10. sawbwa
  11. sawbwas

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