phiz
noun
face.
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phiz
American
[fiz]
/ fɪz /
noun
Slang.
Phiz
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British
/ fɪz /
noun
phiz
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British
/ fɪz /
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.
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
His squarejawed phiz recalls Nelson Rockefeller, another millionaire Republican who inched to the right but never erased his progressive image.
From Time Magazine Archive
In these days the Veto had not shown its appalling phiz.
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 13 by Various
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
The most characteristic and, perhaps, most successful work of "Phiz" is to be seen in the illustrations to Bleak House.
From 'Phiz' (Hablot Knight Browne), a Memoir. by Fred. G. Kitton
There is no death for such a man—he is The spirit of an unclosed book! immortal Phiz!
From 'Phiz' (Hablot Knight Browne), a Memoir. by Fred. G. Kitton
We met yesterday, and exchanged credentials, with an expression of face that I'm sure "Phiz" would have given a five-pound note to look at.
From The Dodd Family Abroad, Vol. I by Charles James Lever
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