phiz
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 18
- Words With Friends
- 18
- Letters
- 4
Definition of phiz
1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included
noun
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(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...”
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
Clipping of physiognomy, late 17th c.
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