What does phiz mean?
Phiz means (chiefly Britain, colloquial) The face..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
(chiefly 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.
[…] and whatever the feelings which now agitate our secret hearts, — you see we are resolved at least to put on a cheerful phiz, and not to die either of the dumps or the mumps, or any other of the dismals.
"As for thee, thou givest me good-morrow with thy one eye and thy lameness and thy ill-omened phiz and I become poor and bankrupt and hungry!"
Flores stood in a corner with a melancholy expression on his phiz.
Sulley Muntari gets fresh and funky on social media disgrace Twitter after claims were made that he introduced his open palm to the phiz of a referee...
Use phiz when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Phiz means (chiefly Britain, colloquial) The face..
Common synonyms include fizzog, phizog.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
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.
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