fumble vs miss

fumble

verb
  • To drop a ball or a baton etc. by accident. 

  • To grope about in perplexity; to seek awkwardly. 

  • To handle much; to play childishly; to turn over and over. 

  • To blunder uncertainly. 

  • To handle nervously or awkwardly. 

  • To grope awkwardly in trying to find something 

noun
  • A ball etc. that has been dropped by accident. 

  • A dessert similar to a cross between a fool and a crumble. 

miss

verb
  • To fail to help the hand of a player. 

  • To be wanting; to lack something that should be present. 

  • To fail to notice; to have a shortcoming of perception; overlook. 

  • To fail to attend. 

  • To be late for something (a means of transportation, a deadline, etc.). 

  • To fail to score (a goal). 

  • To spare someone of something unwanted or undesirable. 

  • To become aware of the loss or absence of; to feel the want or need of, sometimes with regret. 

  • To avoid; to escape. 

  • To fail to achieve or attain. 

  • To fail to understand; 

  • To fail to hit. 

noun
  • A failure to obtain or accomplish. 

  • The situation where an item is not found in a cache and therefore needs to be explicitly loaded. 

  • A failure to hit. 

  • A title of respect for a young woman (usually unmarried) with or without a name used. 

  • 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. 

  • An unmarried woman; a girl. 

  • An act of avoidance (usually used with the verb give) 

  • A kept woman; a mistress. 

How often have the words fumble and miss occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )