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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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
He is balding, jug-eared, and his pale phiz is blotched with pale freckles and pale blue eyes.
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
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
Browsem only screwed up his phiz a little tighter.
From Christmas Penny Readings Original Sketches for the Season by Fenn, George Manville
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
To enumerate all the works illustrated by "Phiz" would be a next to impossible task, for "their name is legion."
From 'Phiz' (Hablot Knight Browne), a Memoir. by Kitton, Fred. G.
In 1846, Dombey and Son commenced, with forty illustrations by "Phiz."
From 'Phiz' (Hablot Knight Browne), a Memoir. by Kitton, Fred. G.
On the 8th of July, 1882, the death occurred of the famous "Phiz."
From 'Phiz' (Hablot Knight Browne), a Memoir. by Kitton, Fred. G.
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