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  • noun UK, slang The face

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From physiognomy.

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Examples

  • I would pay a monstrous amount of money to see my colleague Scott Murray's phizog as he digests that news.12.29pm: "The picture at the top is clearing a pea chasing a humming bird," says Jonathan Harris.

    Transfer window deadline day 2012 – as it happened 2012

  • • Homophone corner: "Holden's full green face paint for her role of Princess Fiona nicely complimented the bright orange phizog of the returning super-judge Simon Cowell" TV matters, 2 June, page 27, G2.

    Corrections and clarifications 2011

  • Not all photographical images of my phizog are flattering; and not all are accurate; but these are splendid.

    Archive 2010-02-01 Adam Roberts 2010

  • "Sure, sir; 'tis he yonder with the lantern-jawed phizog."

    Madame Flirt A Romance of 'The Beggar's Opera' Charles Edward Pearce

  • I didn't like the scoundrel's phizog and I'll swear he didn't want to know for naught what time the London coach passed the George.

    Madame Flirt A Romance of 'The Beggar's Opera' Charles Edward Pearce

  • You'll see him directly go on all-fours and push his old phizog in every corner there is.

    Under Fire: the story of a squad Henri Barbusse 1904

  • As for you, bean-face, you think perhaps the war hasn't changed your phizog and your manners?

    Under Fire: the story of a squad Henri Barbusse 1904

  • Commons -- an 'he to be dead at last! the warld'll seem quite unco without his auld-farrant phizog on the streets.

    Alton Locke, Tailor and Poet An Autobiography Charles Kingsley 1847

  • An unforced error means a first break point for Murray, but Nadal shuts the door in his phizog with a superb forehand.

    The Guardian World News Rob Smyth 2011

  • Tanya Wexler will shoot the film in London and Luxembourg this October, and the first one to suggest the movie will need to build some buzz gets slapped round the phizog with a

    Empire News 2010

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  • The human face (kisser, smiler, mug). British: phizog : an ugly phiz. Colloquial shortening of physiognomy. Phiz was an English illustrator of several of Dickens' novels (1815-1882).

    February 27, 2015

  • The old salt sits down with his dog

    And shares out his bread and his grog.

    They’re birds of a feather

    And, so long together,

    Alike in their tastes and phisog.

    April 8, 2018