phiz
noun
face.
phiz
American
[fiz]
/ fɪz /
noun
Slang.
Phiz
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British
/ fɪz /
noun
phiz
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British
/ fɪz /
noun
Etymology
Origin of phiz
Abbreviation of physiognomy
Example Sentences
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He is balding, jug-eared, and his pale phiz is blotched with pale freckles and pale blue eyes.
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
His squarejawed phiz recalls Nelson Rockefeller, another millionaire Republican who inched to the right but never erased his progressive image.
From Time Magazine Archive
Ever since, he has paid his own personal exterior decorators $3,000 a year to camouflage his phiz whenever he mingles with the public.
From Time Magazine Archive
"Indeed," says Cheatley, "your magnanimous phiz is somewhat disfigured by it, captain."
From Old and New London Volume I by Walter Thornbury
Theirs is a bouncy, jaunty take on Austen, with a 10-member cast taking on an assortment of roles that are always clearly defined, sometimes as graphically as caricatures by the Dickens illustrator Phiz.
From New York Times ● Nov. 26, 2014
Sir John Falstaff's lowlife cronies have the spiky angularity of a Phiz illustration to a Dickens novel.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 28, 2011
When "Phiz" had been selected as the illustrator of the Pickwick Papers, his generous rival was the first to tell him the good news, and offer his congratulations.
From 'Phiz' (Hablot Knight Browne), a Memoir. by Fred. G. Kitton
In the illustration where Mark Tapley is seen starting from his native village for London, "Phiz" exhibits his sense of the picturesque in the old gables and dormers of the cottages which form the background.
From 'Phiz' (Hablot Knight Browne), a Memoir. by Fred. G. Kitton
By John Poole . . . with a portrait of the author and an illustration by Phiz.
From A Catalogue of Books in English Later than 1700 (Vol 2 of 3) Forming a portion of the library of Robert Hoe by Various
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