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Phiz

noun

(pl. phizes)

English illustrator of several of Dickens' novels (1815-1882). Synonyms: Browne, Hablot Knight Browne.

The human face ('kisser' and 'smiler' and 'mug' are informal terms for 'face' and 'phiz' is British). Synonyms: countenance, kisser, mug, physiognomy, smiler, visage.

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"Phiz" Quotes from Famous Books

... earth it is That makes me think my lady's poodle (Her minion smug of solemn phiz,) The pink and pattern of a noodle: Its eyes are deep; their look, serene; Its lips are sensitive and smiling; But oh! the gross effect, I ween, Is, ...

— Punch Volume 102, May 28, 1892 - or the London Charivari • Various

... in London; illustrated Dickens's works, "Pickwick" to begin with, under the pseudonym of "Phiz," as well as the works of Lever, Ainsworth, Fielding, and Smollett, and the Abbotsford edition of Scott; he was skilful as an etcher and ...

— The Nuttall Encyclopaedia - Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge • Edited by Rev. James Wood

... year's growth, because I once dreamed I was burned in just such an accident as a boat taking fire. But how about you, Giraffe? The first time my head came up above the coming of the deck I saw your face, and say, talk to me about a gravestone being white, that wasn't anything alongside your phiz." ...

— The, Boy Scouts on Sturgeon Island - or Marooned Among the Game-fish Poachers • Herbert Carter

... will probably be surprising to the remarkable class of readers thus described by that staunch admirer of Dickens, Mr. Andrew Lang, in "Phiz," one of his charming Lost Leaders. ...

— A Week's Tramp in Dickens-Land • William R. Hughes

... in a bizz, Wi' reekit duds, an' reestit gizz, Ye did present your smoutie phiz 'Mang better folk, An' sklented on the man of Uz ...

— The Humourous Poetry of the English Language • James Parton

Words linked to "Phiz" : United Kingdom, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, face, colloquialism, Britain, Great Britain, UK, pudding-face, pudding face, human face, U.K., human head, illustrator