Whiz vs Phiz - What's the difference?
whiz | phiz |
To make a whirring or hissing sound, similar to that of an object speeding through the air.
To rush or move swiftly with such a sound.
To throw or spin rapidly.
(vulgar, slang) To urinate.
A whirring or hissing sound (as above).
(informal) Someone who is remarkably skilled at something.
An act of urination; a wiz.
(UK, slang, uncountable) amphetamine.
(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!"
}}
As nouns the difference between whiz and phiz
is that whiz is a whirring or hissing sound (as above) while phiz is (obsolete|colloquial) the face.As a verb whiz
is to make a whirring or hissing sound, similar to that of an object speeding through the air.whiz
English
Alternative forms
* whizzVerb
- We whizzed in the bushes.
Noun
(whizzes)- I have to take a whiz .
Synonyms
* See alsoDerived terms
* whiz kidphiz
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. }}