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UK
/fˈɪz/
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NOUN
- the human face (`kisser' and `smiler' and `mug' are informal terms for `face' and `phiz' is British)
How To Use phiz In A Sentence
- Until philosophers rule as kings or those who are now called kings and leading men genuinely and adequately philosophize, that is, until political power and philosophy entirely coincide, while the many natures who at present pursue either one exclusively are forcibly prevented from doing so, cities will have no rest from evils, ... nor, I think, will the human race. All the President's Lies
- We do not "anthropomorphize" our digestion any more than we anthropomorphize furnaces with thermostats. Minding the Brain
- 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. Hollowmell or, A Schoolgirl's Mission
- A smile that could have been ripped from the Cheshire cats face spread across Hilary's smug phizog.
- Cicero says that philosophizing is nothing other than getting ready to die. Morbid Montaigne « So Many Books
- 'Phiz' for Martin Chuzzlewit this frontispiece, which is an epitome of the salient characters and scenes in the novel, was sold for L35. Charles Dickens and Music
- When it comes to dealing with the delicate question,we have a tendency toward catastrophizing and awfulizing.
- He could be glimpsed in the dedications of at least 40 books, from Berton Roueche's true stories of medical detection to Salinger's "Franny and Zooey," where he was apostrophized as "lover of the long shot, protector of the unprolific" - that is, a writer's editor. A Lover Of The Long Shot
- It is 2014 and the Botox butchers have finally been outlawed - not before leaving their indelible mark on the phizogs of every Scot desperate enough to believe the hype.
- When it comes to dealing with daily obstacles, people have a tendency toward catastrophizing.