Crossword-Solution: SAWBONES
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Sawbones | n. | A nickname for a surgeon. |
We have 13 clues for the answer “SAWBONES”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Doctor,surgeon(collq) | 1 answer |
| Hawkeye Pierce, e.g. | 1 answer |
| Old nickname for a surgeon | 1 answer |
| Surgeon (slang) | 1 answer |
| Surgeon, in slang | 1 answer |
| Surgeon, not so kindly | 1 answer |
| Surgeon, slangily | 1 answer |
| Surgeon, to a gangster | 1 answer |
| Surgeon, unkindly | 1 answer |
| Surgeon | 5 answers |
| Medics | 5 answers |
| Doc | 6 answers |
| Medic | 9 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
The superficial contents of any figure; the surface included
within any given lines; superficial extent; as, the area of a square or
a triangle.
Hint 2 anagram
EAAR
Hint 3 another clue
CERTAIN BRAIN SIZE
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Sentences with SAWBONES (5)
Well, sir, he was like the rest of us; every time he looked at my prisoner, I saw that Sawbones turn sick and white with the desire to kill him.
Potter took out a large spring-knife and cut off the dangling end of the rope and then said: “Now the cussed thing’s ready, Sawbones, and you’ll just out with another five, or here she stays.” “That’s the talk!” said Injun Joe.
Make haste, pray.’ ‘Well, miss,’ said Sam, ‘he’s heerd all about it from him; and it’s the gov’nor’s opinion that if you don’t see him wery quick, the sawbones as we’ve been a-speakin’ on, ‘ull get as much extra lead in his head as’ll rayther damage the dewelopment o’ the orgins if they ever put it in spirits artervards.’ ‘Oh, what can I do to prevent these dreadful quarrels!’ exclaimed Arabella.
Master Ambroise Pare, who was the first to attempt the ligature of arteries, and who, having commenced his profession at a time when surgery was only performed by quack barbers, nevertheless succeeded in lifting the science to the high place it now occupies, was assailed in his old age by all the young sawbones’ apprentices.
What expressions to fall from two highly educated gentlemen! Slope--Potato-trap--Sawbones--Catlap--_je n'en finirais pas._” She then let them know that she meditated a “dictionary of jargon;” in hopes that its bulk might strike terror into honest citizens, and excite an anti-jargon league to save the English language, now on the verge of dissolution.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: CrosSynergy, LAT, NY Sun, NYT, Onion, Universal, USA TODAY, WP.
Used 16 times in crossword archives (1970–2019).