phiz1
/fɪz
/(also phizog, fizzog /ˈfɪzɒɡ/)
noun British informal
A person’s face or expression: it was enough to paste his phiz on the cover of Time magazine...
- I am forced to leave the magazine face downwards where her mighty fizzog can be safely forgotten for a few precious moments of sanctuary.
- It is 2014 and the Botox butchers have finally been outlawed - not before leaving their indelible mark on the phizogs of every Scot desperate enough to believe the hype.
- Or the wealthy, aging, American who desperately awaits the call to say that, thanks to a tragic accident in which a beautiful young women died, she can now check into the clinic to receive the phizog of her dreams.
Origin
Late 17th century: abbreviation of physiognomy.
Rhymes
Phiz2
/fɪz/ (1815–82), English illustrator; pseudonym of Hablot Knight Browne. He illustrated many of Dickens’s works, including Martin Chuzzlewit, Pickwick Papers, and Bleak House. He took his pseudonym to complement Dickens’s ‘Boz’.