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Meanings of phiz in English

Portuguese
face
Catalan
semblant
Spanish
rostro
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The human face (`kisser' and `smiler' and `mug' are informal terms for `face' and `phiz' is British)

      face

      English illustrator of several of Dickens' novels (1815-1882)

            Usage of phiz in English
            1
            I was not in the least cold, except my thumb and phiz.
            Memories of Hawthorne
            2
            One of them such an awful phiz that I'm afraid of her.
            Will Warburton
            3
            I suppose you thought you couldn't affect my dark, old, saddle-flap-looking phiz.
            My Brilliant Career
            4
            And I appear so penitent and wear so long a phiz
            Eugene Field, a Study in Heredity and Contradictions — Volume 2
            5
            But never shall I forget the rage that gleamed in the tyrant's phiz!
            The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner
            6
            Well, she has a pleasant little phiz, now hasn't she, Mr. Van Berg?
            A Face Illumined
            7
            Dean Swift, the great Irish satirist, coined the word "phiz" for face.
            How to Speak and Write Correctly
            8
            If anything at all would make me take notice it's your own pretty phiz.
            Aunt Jane's Nieces at Work
            9
            No patriot would go into the war with such a miserable phiz as that.
            The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 60, October, 1862 / A Magaz...
            10
            There was no mistaking that tanned, genial phiz of his.
            The Story of a Bad Boy
            11
            I'd sooner have seen her jolly little phiz than all Lady Bassett's wreathed smiles.
            The Way of an Eagle
            12
            As for Reuben's honest phiz, it was a sight to behold in its perfect satisfaction.
            Ishmael; Or, In the Depths
            13
            Thou didst carry a phiz like an excommunicated deacon's.
            Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. I
            14
            It's easy to see from your jaundiced phiz that for you blood-letting is no cure.
            La Constantin / Celebrated Crimes
            15
            He has a long pedigree, a crooked tail and the drollest "phiz" in dogdom.
            The Story of My Life / With her letters (1887-1901) and a supple...
            16
            Even in the apothecaries of Venice I find your phiz, stamped on little pots and bottles!'
            The crimson petal and the white
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            Spanish
            rostrofaz
            Phiz through the time
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