phiz
noun
face.
phiz
American
[fiz]
/ fɪz /
noun
Slang.
Phiz
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British
/ fɪz /
noun
phiz
2
British
/ fɪz /
noun
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
He is balding, jug-eared, and his pale phiz is blotched with pale freckles and pale blue eyes.
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
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
She has a pretty enough little phiz, but she is too thin.
From Regina or the Sins of the Fathers by Hermann Sudermann
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
He had a sheaf of designs for Irish humorous publications,—'The Weekly Quiz.' to be illustrated by Phiz; 'Blarney,' which was to be launched on the 1st of April.
From Charles Lever, His Life in His Letters, Vol. I by Edmund Downey
"Phiz" may now be said to have fairly commenced his career as a book-illustrator.
From 'Phiz' (Hablot Knight Browne), a Memoir. by Fred. G. Kitton
Of the private life of "Phiz" little is known.
From 'Phiz' (Hablot Knight Browne), a Memoir. by Fred. G. Kitton
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