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phiz

American  
[fiz] / fɪz /

noun

Slang.
  1. face.


Phiz 1 British  
/ fɪz /

noun

  1. real name Hablot Knight Browne. 1815–82, English painter, noted for his illustrations for Dickens' novels

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phiz 2 British  
/ fɪz /

noun

  1. Also called: phizogslang the face or a facial expression

    an ugly phiz

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Etymology

Origin of phiz

Abbreviation of physiognomy

Example Sentences

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His squarejawed phiz recalls Nelson Rockefeller, another millionaire Republican who inched to the right but never erased his progressive image.

From Time Magazine Archive

Yet if you pass that frame of glass, peer closely at his phiz, So stern and firm it mocks the worm, it looks like wax . . . and is.

From Time Magazine Archive

Yet today a growing number of savvy professionals value Wagner for an entirely different reason�the rarity of the 1910 baseball cards bearing his phiz.

From Time Magazine Archive

He is balding, jug-eared, and his pale phiz is blotched with pale freckles and pale blue eyes.

From Time Magazine Archive

In these days the Veto had not shown its appalling phiz.

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 13 by Various