Word Meanings - SAWBONES - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A nickname for a surgeon.

Related words: (words related to SAWBONES)

• NICKNAME
  A name given in contempt, derision, or sportive familiarity; a familiar or an opprobrious appellation. (more info) ekename being understood as a nekename, influenced also by E. nick,
• SURGEONRY
  Surgery.
• SURGEON
  Any one of numerous species of chætodont fishes of the family Teuthidæ, or Acanthuridæ, which have one or two sharp lancelike spines on each side of the base of the tail. Called also surgeon fish, doctor fish, lancet fish, and sea surgeon.
• SURGEONCY
  The office or employment of a surgeon, as in the naval or military service.
• SEA SURGEON
  A surgeon fish.