miss vs peer

miss

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. 

verb
  • 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 fail to help the hand of a player. 

  • To avoid; to escape. 

  • To fail to achieve or attain. 

  • To fail to understand; 

  • To fail to hit. 

peer

verb
  • To make equal in rank. 

  • To carry communications traffic terminating on one's own network on an equivalency basis to and from another network, usually without charge or payment. Contrast with transit where one pays another network provider to carry one's traffic. 

  • To look with difficulty, or as if searching for something. 

noun
  • Someone who pees, someone who urinates. 

  • Somebody who is, or something that is, at a level or of a value equal (to that of something else). 

  • A look; a glance. 

  • A noble with a title, i.e., a peerage, and in times past, with certain rights and privileges not enjoyed by commoners. 

  • Someone who is approximately the same age (as someone else). 

  • A comrade; a companion; an associate. 

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