Phiz Definition
fiz
noun
A face or facial expression.
Webster's New World
1831 June, “The Lord Advocate on Reform", Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, volume 29, number 181, page 980:"Š
[...] and whatever the feelings which now agitate our secret hearts, "” you see we are resolved at least to put on a cheerful phiz, and not to die either of the dumps or the mumps, or any other of the dismals.
Wiktionary
1885, Richard F. Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, volume 8.
"As for thee, thou givest me good-morrow with thy one eye and thy lameness and thy ill-omened phiz and I become poor and bankrupt and hungry!"
Wiktionary
Synonyms:
- Hablot Knight Browne
- browne
- mug
- smiler
- kisser
- visage
- physiognomy
- countenance
Other Word Forms of Phiz
Noun
Singular:
phiz
Plural:
phizzesOrigin of Phiz
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Short for physiognomy.
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