Muddle vs Nuddle - What's the difference?

As verbs the difference between muddle and nuddle

is that muddle is to mix together, to mix up; to confuse while nuddle is to walk quickly with the head bent forward.

is a mixture; a confusion; a garble.

(muddl)

To mix together, to mix up; to confuse.

Young children tend to muddle their words.

To mash slightly for use in a cocktail.

He muddled the mint sprigs in the bottom of the glass.

To dabble in mud.

(Jonathan Swift)

To make turbid or muddy.

* L'Estrange

He did ill to muddle the water.

To think and act in a confused, aimless way.

To cloud or stupefy; to render stupid with liquor; to intoxicate partially.

* Bentley

Their old master Epicurus seems to have had his brains so muddled and confounded with them, that he scarce ever kept in the right way.

* Arbuthnot

often drunk, always muddled

To waste or misuse, as one does who is stupid or intoxicated.

* Hazlitt

They muddle it [money] away without method or object, and without having anything to show for it.

* muddler (agent noun) * muddle along * muddle through * muddle up

(en noun)

A mixture; a confusion; a garble.

The muddle of nervous speech he uttered did not have much meaning.

* muddle-headed

* nudle

(nuddl)

(UK, dialect) To walk quickly with the head bent forward.

* Often used with (along). (Webster 1913)