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Phiz

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n.1.The face or visage.
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Noun1.PhizPhiz - English illustrator of several of Dickens' novels (1815-1882)
Browne, Hablot Knight Browne
2.Phizphiz - the human face (`kisser' and `smiler' and `mug' are informal terms for `face' and `phiz' is British)
physiognomy, visage, smiler, kisser, mug, countenance
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
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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
The Great Carbuncle by Hawthorne, Nathaniel View in context
I mostly has to eat my meals alone, with the reflection of my ugly old phiz in a looking-glass opposite for company.
Anne's House of Dreams by Montgomery, Lucy Maud View in context
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.
Adam Bede by Eliot, George View in context
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