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- n. The face
Etymologies
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• Homophone corner: "Holden's full green face paint for her role of Princess Fiona nicely complimented the bright orange phizog of the returning super-judge Simon Cowell" TV matters, 2 June, page 27, G2.
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I would pay a monstrous amount of money to see my colleague Scott Murray's phizog as he digests that news.12.29pm: "The picture at the top is clearing a pea chasing a humming bird," says Jonathan Harris.
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Not all photographical images of my phizog are flattering; and not all are accurate; but these are splendid.
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"Sure, sir; 'tis he yonder with the lantern-jawed phizog."
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I didn't like the scoundrel's phizog and I'll swear he didn't want to know for naught what time the London coach passed the George.
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You'll see him directly go on all-fours and push his old phizog in every corner there is.
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As for you, bean-face, you think perhaps the war hasn't changed your phizog and your manners?
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Commons -- an 'he to be dead at last! the warld'll seem quite unco without his auld-farrant phizog on the streets.
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An unforced error means a first break point for Murray, but Nadal shuts the door in his phizog with a superb forehand.
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Tanya Wexler will shoot the film in London and Luxembourg this October, and the first one to suggest the movie will need to build some buzz gets slapped round the phizog with a
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The human face (kisser, smiler, mug). British: phizog : an ugly phiz. Colloquial shortening of physiognomy. Phiz was an English illustrator of several of Dickens' novels (1815-1882).
February 27, 2015