phizog joc. colloq.
(ˈfɪzɒg)
Also fizzog, phisog, physog, phyzog.
[f. as phiz.]
= phiz. Cf. physiog.
| 1811 F. Grose's Lexicon Balatronicum, Physog, the face. A vulgar abbreviation of physiognomy. 1829 P. Egan Boxiana 2nd Ser. II. 706 A certain melancholy cast was taking possession of Tom's phisog. 1846 Swell's Night Guide 127/2 Phizog, the face. 1850 C. Kingsley Alton Locke II. iii. 37 He had received an anonymous letter, ‘a'thegither o' a Belgravian cast o' phizog,’ containing a bank-note for twenty pounds. 1912 W. Owen Let. 12 Jan. (1967) 110 Unable to get out and see anything better in the way of physogs. 1922 Joyce Ulysses 297, I saw his physog do a peep in and then slidder off again. 1939 Airman's Gaz. Dec., One observer ‘snapped’ Adolph's phisog. 1946 B. Marshall George Brown's Schooldays iv. 16 The prefect shuts the door in their physogs. 1959 I. & P. Opie Lore & Lang. Schoolch. x. 194 ‘Shut yer face’—‘fizzog’—‘flycatcher’—or, ‘gate’. 1980 Radio Times 5–11 Jan. 15/1 The phizog is definitely familiar... ‘I get recognised wherever I go,’ he says. |