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Whiz vs Phiz - What's the difference?

whiz | phiz |

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

* whizz

Verb

  • 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.
  • We whizzed in the bushes.

    Noun

    (whizzes)
  • A whirring or hissing sound (as above).
  • (informal) Someone who is remarkably skilled at something.
  • An act of urination; a wiz.
  • I have to take a whiz .
  • (UK, slang, uncountable) amphetamine.
  • Synonyms

    * See also

    Derived terms

    * whiz kid

    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