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Phiz

noun, slang

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Noun
  1. 1
    The face. Britain, colloquial

    "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."

  2. 2
    the human face (‘kisser’ and ‘smiler’ and ‘mug’ are informal terms for ‘face’ and ‘phiz’ is British) wordnet

Etymology

Clipping of physiognomy, late 17th c.

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