SAWBONES

surgeon, operating surgeon, sawbones

(noun) a physician who specializes in surgery

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

sawbones (plural sawbones or sawboneses)

(slang) A surgeon.

Anagrams

• snowbase

Source: Wiktionary


Saw"bones`, n.

Definition: A nickname for a surgeon.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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Word of the Day

10 January 2025

INTERSPERSION

(noun) the act of combining one thing at intervals among other things; “the interspersion of illustrations in the text”


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Coffee Trivia

According to Guinness World Records, the largest iced coffee is 14,228.1 liters and was created by Caffé Bene (South Korea), in Yangju, South Korea, on 17 July 2014. They poured iced black Americano on the giant cup that measured 3.3 meters tall and 2.62 meters wide.

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