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phizzes

phizzes is the plural of phiz.

phizzes is the plural of phizz.

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

Questions about phizzes

What is phizzes the plural of?
Phizzes is the plural of phiz.

Words near phizzes in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: phizzes (page history and authors); phiz (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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