phiz
Americannoun
noun
noun
Etymology
Origin of phiz
Abbreviation of physiognomy
Example Sentences
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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.
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
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
Hern’s in her pockit, yourn’s in yo’ phiz.
From Belford's Magazine, Volume II, No. 8, January, 1889 by Various
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