Miss vs. Missy
Missverb
(ambitransitive) To fail to hit.
‘I missed the target.’; ‘I tried to kick the ball, but missed.’;
Missynoun
A young female; miss.
Missverb
(transitive) To fail to achieve or attain.
‘to miss an opportunity’;
Missyadjective
Girlish; effeminate; sentimental.
Missverb
(transitive) To feel the absence of someone or something, sometimes with regret.
‘I miss you! Come home soon!’;
Missyadjective
term of mild disparagement for a girl or young women typically used jokingly or rebukingly
‘That's enough out of you, missy!’;
Missverb
(transitive) To fail to understand or have a shortcoming of perception.
‘miss the joke’;
Missyadjective
Of, or pertaining to, female clothing or clothing sizes.
Missverb
(transitive) To fail to attend.
‘Joe missed the meeting this morning.’;
Missynoun
See Misy.
Missverb
(transitive) To be late for something (a means of transportation, a deadline, etc.).
‘I missed the plane!’;
Missynoun
An affectionate, or contemptuous, form of miss; a young girl; a miss.
Missverb
(only in present tense) To be wanting; to lack something that should be present. transivity?
‘The car is missing essential features.’;
Missynoun
a young woman;
‘a young lady of 18’;
Missverb
To fail to help the hand of a player.
‘Player A: J7. Player B: Q6. Table: 283. The flop missed both players!’;
Missy
Missy or Missie is a feminine first name, often a short form of Melissa.
Missverb
(sports) To fail to score (a goal).
Missverb
To go wrong; to err.
Missverb
To be absent, deficient, or wanting.
Missnoun
A failure to hit.
Missnoun
A failure to obtain or accomplish.
Missnoun
An act of avoidance (used with the verb give).
‘I think I’ll give the meeting a miss.’;
Missnoun
(computing) The situation where an item is not found in a cache and therefore needs to be explicitly loaded.
Missnoun
A title of respect for a young woman (usually unmarried) with or without a name used.
‘You may sit here, miss.’; ‘You may sit here, Miss Jones.’;
Missnoun
An unmarried woman; a girl.
Missnoun
A kept woman; a mistress.
Missnoun
(card games) In the game of three-card loo, an extra hand, dealt on the table, which may be substituted for the hand dealt to a player.
Missnoun
A title of courtesy prefixed to the name of a girl or a woman who has not been married. See Mistress, 5.
Missnoun
A young unmarried woman or a girl; as, she is a miss of sixteen.
‘Gay vanity, with smiles and kisses,Was busy 'mongst the maids and misses.’;
Missnoun
A kept mistress. See Mistress, 4.
Missnoun
In the game of three-card loo, an extra hand, dealt on the table, which may be substituted for the hand dealt to a player.
Missnoun
The act of missing; failure to hit, reach, find, obtain, etc.
Missnoun
Loss; want; felt absence.
‘There will be no great miss of those which are lost.’;
Missnoun
Mistake; error; fault.
‘He did without any great miss in the hardest points of grammar.’;
Missnoun
Harm from mistake.
Missverb
To fail of hitting, reaching, getting, finding, seeing, hearing, etc.; as, to miss the mark one shoots at; to miss the train by being late; to miss opportunites of getting knowledge; to miss the point or meaning of something said.
‘When a man misses his great end, happiness, he will acknowledge he judged not right.’;
Missverb
To omit; to fail to have or to do; to get without; to dispense with; - now seldom applied to persons.
‘She would never miss, one day,A walk so fine, a sight so gay.’; ‘We cannot miss him; he does make our fire,Fetch in our wood.’;
Missverb
To discover the absence or omission of; to feel the want of; to mourn the loss of; to want; as, to miss an absent loved one.
‘Neither missed we anything . . . Nothing was missed of all that pertained unto him.’; ‘What by me thou hast lost, thou least shalt miss.’;
Missverb
To fail to hit; to fly wide; to deviate from the true direction.
‘Men observe when things hit, and not when they miss.’; ‘Flying bullets now,To execute his rage, appear too slow;They miss, or sweep but common souls away.’;
Missverb
To fail to obtain, learn, or find; - with of.
‘Upon the least reflection, we can not miss of them.’;
Missverb
To go wrong; to err.
‘Amongst the angels, a whole legionOf wicked sprites did fall from happy bliss;What wonder then if one, of women all, did miss?’;
Missverb
To be absent, deficient, or wanting.
‘What here shall miss, our toil shall strive to mend.’;
Missnoun
a young woman;
‘a young lady of 18’;
Missnoun
a failure to hit (or meet or find etc)
Missverb
fail to perceive or to catch with the senses or the mind;
‘I missed that remark’; ‘She missed his point’; ‘We lost part of what he said’;
Missverb
feel or suffer from the lack of;
‘He misses his mother’;
Missverb
fail to attend an event or activity;
‘I missed the concert’; ‘He missed school for a week’;
Missverb
leave undone or leave out;
‘How could I miss that typo?’; ‘The workers on the conveyor belt miss one out of ten’;
Missverb
fail to reach or get to;
‘She missed her train’;
Missverb
be without;
‘This soup lacks salt’; ‘There is something missing in my jewellery box!’;
Missverb
fail to reach;
‘The arrow missed the target’;
Missverb
be absent;
‘The child had been missing for a week’;
Missverb
fail to experience;
‘Fortunately, I missed the hurricane’;
Miss
Miss (pronounced ) is an English language honorific traditionally used only for an unmarried woman (not using another title such as or ). Originating in the 17th century, it is a contraction of mistress, which was used for all women.
‘Doctor’; ‘Dame’;
