The Clue
___ Piggy (4 letter answer)
The Answer
MISS
Tags
Notes
The answer MISS is seen frequently, appearing about once every 170 puzzles.
Related Clues
___ America
___ the bus
Escape
Fan
Forgo
Girl
Hit or ___
Lass
___ Liberty
___ Marple
Ole ___
Overlook
Overshoot
Oversight
Pine for
Swiss ___
Whiff
America or Liberty
America or Muffet
Be nostalgiac
Fail to catch
Fail to make
Fail to notice
Fail to see
Failed attempt
Get wrong
Hit's alternative
Hit's opposite
Jeune fille
Liberty or America
Muffet or America
Pageant title
Peach or Piggy
Strindberg's "___ Julie"
TV's ___ Piggy
Universe or America
Young lady
Air ball, e.g.
Be errant, say
Fail to hit a target
Feel another's absence
Go wide of, say
Mile equivalent, proverbially
The Rolling Stones' "___ You"
Start of a pageant winner's title
Definition
MISS as a noun:
1. (girl, miss, missy, young lady, young woman, fille) = a young woman; "a young lady of 18"
2. (miss, misfire) = a failure to hit (or meet or find etc)
3. a form of address for an unmarried woman
MISS as a verb:
1. (miss, lose) = 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"
2. feel or suffer from the lack of; "He misses his mother"
3. fail to attend an event or activity; "I missed the concert"; "He missed school for a week"
4. (neglect, pretermit, omit, drop, miss, leave out, overlook, overleap) = leave undone or leave out; "How could I miss that typo?"; "The workers on the conveyor belt miss one out of ten"
5. fail to reach or get to; "She missed her train"
6. (miss, lack) = be without; "This soup lacks salt"; "There is something missing in my jewellery box!"
7. fail to reach; "The arrow missed the target"
8. be absent; "The child had been missing for a week"
9. (miss, escape) = fail to experience; "Fortunately, I missed the hurricane"