phiz
noun
face.
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American
[fiz]
/ fɪz /
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/ fɪz /
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phiz
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/ fɪz /
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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 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
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
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
But first, afoar tha starts to read, I’ll tell thee who I iz; Tha lukes a deacent chap enuff, I judge it by thi phiz.
From Random Rhymes and Rambles by Wright, William Aldis
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