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Definition of Phizzes
1. phiz [n] - See also: phiz
Lexicographical Neighbors of Phizzes
Literary usage of Phizzes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Monthly Review by Ralph Griffiths (1783)
"... enough to qualify him for interpreting their phizzes with fo much accuracy as he
... of their phizzes exhibited in one of the plates of this fragment. ..."
2. The Monthly Review by Ralph Griffiths (1783)
"... enough to qualify him for interpreting their phizzes with fo much accuracy
a;> he-does ... phizzes exhibited in one of the plates of this fragment. ..."
3. The Laughing Philosopher: Being the Entire Works of Momus, Jester of Olympus by Charles Lamb, Thomas Hood, John Bull (1825)
"There were new moon phizzes and full moon phizzes; sleepy eyes and sleepless
eyes; Blaring eyes and squinting eyes ; sharp noses and mnl» notes; ..."
4. The Quaver; or, Songster's pocket companion by Quaver (1844)
"I thought they would me kill With laughing at their comic phizzes. Ha, ha, ha,
ha, ha, ha, ha ! With laughing at their comic ..."
5. The Cambridge History of American Literature by William Peterfield Trent, John Erskine, Stuart Pratt Sherman, Carl Van Doren (1917)
"When he first looked about him in Philadelphia, he observed several comical,
grotesque phizzes in the inn where I put up, which would have afforded variety ..."
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