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
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
“Aye, aye,” said the Flemish troopers, “he has a good old phiz, the preacher.”
From The Legend of Ulenspiegel, Volume I (of 2) And Lamme Goedzak, and their Adventures Heroical, Joyous and Glorious in the Land of Flanders and Elsewhere by Coster, Charles Th?odore Henri de
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
Phiz must invent a vignette for the title.
From Charles Lever, His Life in His Letters, Vol. I by Downey, Edmund
Phiz came to consult Lever about the illustrations for his new book, Lever having entered a protest against Browne's tendency to caricature.
From Charles Lever, His Life in His Letters, Vol. I by Downey, Edmund
Image of his Father; or, one boy is more trouble than a dozen girls being a tale of a "young monkey." By the Brothers Mayhew. Illustrated 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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