English

Noun

phiz ‎(plural phizzes or phizes)

1. (obsolete, colloquial) The face.
   • 1818, Cowper, William, “Conversation”, in Poems, volume 1, page 163:

     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.

   • 1831 June, “The Lord Advocate on Reform”, in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, volume 29, number 181, page 980:

     […] 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.

   • 1885, Burton, Richard F., The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, volume 8:

     "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!"

Synonyms

• fizzog, phizog