Reverse Dictionary: MISS

ADJECTIVES
► ADRIFT missing → L18 sl.
► AMISSING missing, wanting → L16 chiefly Sc.
► AWANTING wanting, missing → 1881 Sc.
► AWOL missing; absent without leave → 1920 Brit. sl., orig. military
► MISSLIE missed, regretted, or wanted when absent → 1824 Sc.
► MUFFED bungled; clumsily spoilt, missed → c1860 Brit. sl.
► NIBBY-GIBBY narrowly escaped or missed → 1854 Eng. dial.

PHRASES
► TIGER’S GOT IT, THE it’s missing; it’s stolen → 1970 US Army sl.
► UP IN NELLY’S ROOM BEHIND THE WALLPAPER the presumed location of something missing or lost → 2003 Ireland sl.

VERBS
► BALK ► BAULK to miss by error or inadvertence → 1579 obs.
► DESIDERATE to desire with a sense of want or regret; to feel a desire or longing for; to feel the want of; to desire, to want, to miss → 1646 obs.
► DO AN ARGENTINA to go missing, presumed dead → 2003 UK sl.
► FAULT to fail or omit to do something; to miss one’s aim → 1522 obs.
► GO FOR A BURTON of a person or thing: to be missing, ruined, or destroyed → 1946 sl.
► GO WALKABOUT to be missing; to take off somewhere without warning → 1999 Aust. sl. (Bk.)
► LAME TALE an excuse; a false story; a misrepresentation → 1902 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► MANKIE to fail; to miss → 1882 Sc.
► MISPER to go missing → 2000s sl.
► MISS EVERY HAIR OF HIS HEAD to miss anyone very much → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► WANT 1. to be a defaulter; to be absent or missing → 1435 obs.
2. to feel the loss of, to miss → 1623 obs.