Phiz vs Puss - What's the difference?
phiz | puss |
(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!"
}}
(informal) A cat.
A girl or young woman.
(dated, hunting) A hare.
(vulgar, slang) Vulva (female genitalia).
(slang) The mouth.
As nouns the difference between phiz and puss
is that phiz is (obsolete|colloquial) the face while puss is (informal) a cat or puss can be (slang) the mouth.phiz
English
Noun
(phizzes)In contact inconvenient, nose to nose.
As if the gnomon on his neighbour's phiz ,
Touched with the magnet had attracted his. }}
Synonyms
* phizogpuss
English
Etymology 1
From a Common (etyl) word for cat. Akin to (etyl) , West Frisian (m), (etyl) (m), (m), Danish (m), dialectal (etyl) (m), (etyl) (m). Found also in several other European and Western Asian languages. Compare (etyl) (m).Noun
(es)- Our local theatre is showing Puss in Boots.
Synonyms
* (cat) moggie/moggyEtymology 2
Of (etyl) origin, from or akin to (etyl) .Noun
(es)- She gave him a slap in the puss .