phiz

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phiz

Rhymes with -ɪz

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Clipping of physiognomy, late 17th c.

noun phizzes · phizes

Britain, colloquial The face. The emphatic speaker dearly loves to oppose, In contact inconvenient, nose to nose. As if the gnomon on his neighbour's phiz, Touched with the magnet had attracted his.
Similar: fizzog, phizog

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@misc{phiz_2026,
  title = {phiz},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/phiz},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}