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Fizz vs Phiz - What's the difference?

fizz | phiz |

As nouns the difference between fizz and phiz

is that fizz is an emission of a rapid stream of bubbles while phiz is (obsolete|colloquial) the face.

As a verb fizz

is to emit bubbles.

fizz

English

Noun

(es)
  • An emission of a rapid stream of bubbles.
    • I poured a cola and waited for the fizz to settle down before topping off the glass.
  • The sound of such an emission.
    • Evan sat back in the hot tub and listened to the relaxing fizz and pops produced by the eruption of bubbles.
  • A carbonated beverage.
    • Nathan ordered an orange fizz from the soda jerk at the counter.

    Synonyms

    * (emission of bubbles) effervescence, foam, froth, head * (sound of bubbles) bubble, fizzle, hiss, sputter * (carbonated beverage) pop, seltzer, soda, tonic

    Verb

  • To emit bubbles.
  • To make a rapid hissing or bubbling sound.
    • the fizzing fuse of a bomb
  • To shoot or project something moving at great velocity.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2011 , date=January 15 , author=Saj Chowdhury , title=Man City 4 - 3 Wolves , work=BBC citation , page= , passage=And just before the interval, Kolarov, who was having one of his better games in a City shirt, fizzed in a cracker from 30 yards which the Wolves stopper unconvincingly pushed behind for a corner.}}
  • To travel at a great velocity, producing a sound caused by the speed.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2011 , date=January 15 , author=Sam Sheringham , title=Chelsea 2 -03 Blackburn Rovers , work=BBC citation , page= , passage=Terry came close to doubling Chelsea's lead when his header from Lampard's mis-hit volley fizzed inches past the upright.}}

    Synonyms

    * (emit bubbles) bubble, effervesce, foam, froth * (make bubbling sound) fizzle, hiss, sizzle, sputter

    Derived terms

    * fizzy

    phiz

    English

    Noun

    (phizzes)
  • (obsolete, colloquial) The face.
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year = 1818 , chapter = Conversation , title = Poems , volume = 1 , first = William , last = Cowper , authorlink = William Cowper , page = 163 , pageurl = http://books.google.com/books?id=qi5bAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA163&dq=phiz , passage = The emphatic speaker dearly loves to oppose,
    In contact inconvenient, nose to nose.
    As if the gnomon on his neighbour's phiz ,
    Touched with the magnet had attracted his. }}
  • * {{quote-magazine
    • , year = 1831 , month = June , title = The Lord Advocate on Reform , magazine = , volume = 29 , issue = 181 , page = 980 , pageurl = http://books.google.com/books?id=9bUCAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA980&dq=phiz , passage = and whatever the feelings which now agitate our secret hearts, — you see we are resolved at least to put on a cheerful phiz , and not to die either of the dumps or the mumps, or any other of the dismals. }}
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year = 1885 , title = The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night , volume = 8 , first = Richard F. , last = Burton , authorlink = Richard Francis Burton , url = http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/3442 , passage = "As for thee, thou givest me good-morrow with thy one eye and thy lameness and thy ill-omened phiz and I become poor and bankrupt and hungry!" }}

    Synonyms

    * phizog