phiz
Americannoun
noun
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.
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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.
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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.
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Ever since, he has paid his own personal exterior decorators $3,000 a year to camouflage his phiz whenever he mingles with the public.
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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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