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phyz

phyz 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 phyz

pluralphyzes
pluralphyzzes

Questions about phyz

What is phyz the alternative form of?
Phyz is the alternative form of phiz.

Words near phyz in the dictionary

  1. phytuberin
  2. phytyl
  3. phytyls
  4. phytyltransferase
  5. phytyltransferases
  6. phyz
  7. phyzes
  8. phyzog
  9. phyzogs
  10. phyzzes
  11. phænologic

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Adapted from Wiktionary: phyz (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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