Definitions
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
- n. The face.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- n. The face or visage.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The face or visage.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- n. English illustrator of several of Dickens' novels (1815-1882)
- n. the human face (`kisser' and `smiler' and `mug' are informal terms for `face' and `phiz' is British)
Etymologies
Examples
-
Next day there was more than one "phiz" between Minnie and Mona, owing to the fact that Minnie's mind was so entirely occupied by her new undertaking, that she could not manage to give more than a small part of her attention to her lessons.
-
But on this particular day it seemed as if some of the ingredients were wanting, for the morning and afternoon passed, to the astonishment of all, without a single "phiz" as the girls were wont somewhat felicitously to call the frequent passages of arms in which the two girls considered it their peculiar privilege to indulge.
-
Dean Swift, the great Irish satirist, coined the word "phiz" for face.
-
"Lamper, old chap, I _am_ glad to see your 'phiz' again."
-
He has a long pedigree, a crooked tail and the drollest "phiz" in dogdom.
-
a key connection between the elongation of Soyer's physiognomy ( "phiz"), and his desire for renown.
-
It got his phiz on the front of Time Magazine, so I'm sure he considers it money well spent.
Mark Zuckerberg's philanthropy is reason enough to applaud him | Arianna Huffington
-
He was big and ugly, with a nose that had been spread half across his face, probably by a club, there wasn't a hair on his phiz or gleaming skull, the huge arms protruding from his vest were covered with tattoos, but what took the eye was that he was clieking away with knitting needles at a piece of woollen work - not a common sight in a waterfront dosshouse.
-
Anyway, darlings, when I spotted this person's phiz in the print edition of today's WSJ, my first thought was "My Goddess, that's a woman disguised as a man!"
-
It was a boy less than ten years of age, ragged, very small, yellow, with an odd phiz, a vivacious eye, an enormous amount of hair drenched with rain, and wearing a contented air.
yarb commented on the word phiz
Citation on innkeeper.
November 14, 2008
milosrdenstvi commented on the word phiz
Archaic Britishism for face.
August 20, 2008
chained_bear commented on the word phiz
"He added that he was thinking of Mrs Pullings, of Mrs Captain Pullings, and what she would say to an income of sixteen guineas a month. Sixteen beautiful guineas a lunar month!
"'What she will say to your poor phiz is more to the point,' said Jack to himself... A very ugly wound indeed: he had rarely seen an uglier. Yet Stephan Maturin assured him that the great gash would heal and that the eye was in no danger..."
--Patrick O'Brian, Treason's Harbour, 32
February 15, 2008
fbharjo commented on the word phiz
phiz just face it
January 12, 2007