sawbones

Other forms of sawbones

plural

sawboneses·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about sawbones

What does sawbones mean?

sawbones means "a physician who specializes in surgery".

How many syllables are in sawbones?

sawbones has 2 syllables: saw-bones. The stress falls on "saw".

What is another word for sawbones?

Close synonyms include surgeon, operating surgeon. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is sawbones a common word?

sawbones is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.