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phiz [fɪz]
n
(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Anatomy) Slang chiefly Brit the face or a facial expression an ugly phiz Also called phizog [ˈfɪzɒg fɪˈzɒg]
[colloquial shortening of physiognomy]

Phiz [fɪz]
n
(Biographies / Phiz (1815-1882) M, English, ARTS AND CRAFTS: painter, ARTS AND CRAFTS: illustrator) real name Hablot Knight Browne. 1815-82, English painter, noted for his illustrations for Dickens' novels
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Noun1.phizPhiz - English illustrator of several of Dickens' novels (1815-1882)
2.phizphiz - the human face (`kisser' and `smiler' and `mug' are informal terms for `face' and `phiz' is British)
human head - the head of a human being
face, human face - the front of the human head from the forehead to the chin and ear to ear; "he washed his face"; "I wish I had seen the look on his face when he got the news"
pudding face, pudding-face - a large fat human face
colloquialism - a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech
Britain, Great Britain, U.K., UK, United Kingdom, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland - a monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles; divided into England and Scotland and Wales and Northern Ireland; `Great Britain' is often used loosely to refer to the United Kingdom
Translations
phiz [fɪz] Njeta f
phiz
n (dated Brit sl) → Visage f (inf)


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Look at Old Stony Phiz and then at the Old Man of the Mountain, and see if they are not as like as two twin brothers
I mostly has to eat my meals alone, with the reflection of my ugly old phiz in a looking-glass opposite for company.
That common, round, red face one sees sometimes in the men--all cheek and no features, like Martin Poyser's--comes out in the women of the famuly as the most charming phiz imaginable.
 
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