Phiz

Definitions: Phiz

Phiz

Noun

1. English illustrator of several of Dickens' novels (1815-1882).

2. The human face (`kisser' and `smiler' and `mug' are informal terms for `face'; `phiz' is British).

Date "Phiz" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1664. (references)

Note: Phiz \Phiz\, noun; plural Phizes. [Contr. from physiognomy.]. (Websters 1913)

Domain	Definitions
Literature	Phiz the face, is a contraction of physiognomy. Phiz Hablot K. Browne, who illustrated the Pickwick Papers, etc. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Phiz

Synonyms: countenance (n), kisser (n), mug (n), physiognomy (n), smiler (n), visage (n). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Front	Brow, forehead, visage, physiognomy, phiz, countenance, mut; rostrum, beak, bow, stem, prow, prore, jib.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Phiz

English words defined with "Phiz": Phizes, Phyz. (references)

Specialty definitions using "Phiz": Coloured Frontispiece by Phiz. (references)

Etymologies containing "Phiz": Physiognomy. (references)

Domain	Title
Books	Phiz & Dickens (reference) Phiz 93: The John Kobal Foundation/Independent on Sunday Photographic Portrait Award (reference) Phiz A Memoir (reference) Phiz! : illustrator of Dickens' world (reference) Phiz! : the book illustrations of Hablot Knight Browne (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

"Phiz" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Phiz" is used about 5 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (proper)	100%	5	157,705

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "Phiz"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		Fytyrë (countenance, face, front, name, physiognomy, visage). (various references)

Arabic		‏محيا (countenance, visage), ‏وجه (aim, aspect, boss, change, control, countenance, cox, destine, direct, engineer, face, guide, maw, mug, mush, officer, orient oneself, orientate, pan, point, preside, rein, shepherd, snout, steer, visage). (various references)

Bulgarian		Мутра, Физиономия. (various references)

Dutch		tronie (mug), smoelwerk (mug), smoel (mug), bakkes (mug). (various references)

Esperanto		vizaĝaĉo (mug). (various references)

French		Binette. (various references)

German		Zifferblatt (clock face, dial, face, watchface), Visage (dial, face, mug), Fratze (caricature, face, grimace, grotesque face, mug). (various references)

Hungarian		Ábrázat. (various references)

Pig Latin		izphay

Portuguese		Rosto (countenance, face, feature, frontlet, mug, muzzle, proboscis, trunk, visage), Focinho (muzzle, Neb, nose, proboscis, snout, trunk), Filtro Amoroso (philtre), Face (cheek, face, jowl, mug, Muz), Expressão Da Face, Cara (appearance, expression, face, guy, visage). (various references)

Romanian		Mutrã (face, figure-head, index, mug, pan, Snoot, snout), Moacã (index, mug, physiognomy), Fizionomie (aspect, countenance, feature, look, mien, physiognomy), Faţã (appearance, aspect, complexion, countenance, face, forefront, foreground, front, head, index, look, mug, Snoot, surface, visage). (various references)

Russian		Физиономия, Лицо. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		faca. (various references)

Spanish		Cara (air, appearance, brow, dial, façade, face, head, inland, look, pane, puss, side). (various references)

Swedish		Nylle (dial, kisser, puss), Fejs (clock, dial, face, kisser, map, mug, mush). (various references)

Turkish		Yüz Ýfadesi, Yüz (c, cast of features, countenance, dial, face, facial, front, frontispiece, hecto-, hundred, kisser, mien, obverse, one hundred, physiognomy, puss, Snoot, visage), Surat (countenance, court card, dial, face, kisser, map, mien, pan, puss, Snoot). (various references)

Ukranian		Фізіономія. (various references)

Vietnamese		nét mặt (look, physiognomy, visage), diện mạo (air). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "Phiz": phizes. (additional references)
	Words containing "Phiz": anthropomorphization, anthropomorphizations, anthropomorphize, anthropomorphized, anthropomorphizes, anthropomorphizing, apostrophize, apostrophized, apostrophizes, apostrophizing, philosophize, philosophized, philosophizer, philosophizers, philosophizes, philosophizing. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Words ending with "iz": Viz. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "h-i-p-z"
	-1 letter: hip, phi, zip.
	-2 letters: hi, pi.
	Words containing the letters "h-i-p-z"
	+2 letters: phizes.
	+3 letters: rhizopi, zaptiah, zaptieh.
	+4 letters: aphorize, hepatize, phenazin, pirozhki, pirozhok, rhizopod, rhizopus, zaptiahs, zaptiehs, zoophile, zoophily.
	+5 letters: aphorized, aphorizes, empathize, emphasize, euphemize, hepatized, hepatizes, hypnotize, phenazine, phenazins, rhizopods, zigamorph, zoophiles, zoophilic.
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