9 RegisterLog in Sign up with one click: Facebook Twitter Google Share on Facebook barber-surgeon inferior doctor; formerly a barber performing dentistry and surgery. [Medicine: Misc.] See:Quackery Allusions—Cultural, Literary, Biblical, and Historical: A Thematic Dictionary. Copyright 2008 The ...
In her 1898 poem, she played with a well-known proverb that she reversed, as she did with a series of similar sayings in other contexts, to prove them wrong. "A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush." "Why did you scream, my little man, As if you were half slain?" "...