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phizz

phizz is the alternative form of phiz.

Meaning of phiz

Noun

phiz (plural phizzes or phizes)

  1. (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.1818, William Cowper, “Conversation”, in Poems, volume 1, page 163
    Synonyms:
    fizzog, phizog

Forms of phizz

pluralphizzes

Questions about phizz

What is phizz the alternative form of?
Phizz is the alternative form of phiz.

Words near phizz in the dictionary

  1. phizes
  2. phizgog
  3. phiznomy
  4. phizog
  5. phizogs
  6. phizz
  7. phizzes
  8. phizzog
  9. phizzogs
  10. Phl.
  11. phlaeothripid

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