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Nonplus vs Hoodwink - What's the difference?

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As verbs the difference between nonplus and hoodwink

is that nonplus is to perplex or bewilder someone; to confound or flummox while hoodwink is to cover the eyes with a hood; to blindfold.

As a noun nonplus

is a state of perplexity or bewilderment.

nonplus

English

Noun

(es)
  • A state of perplexity or bewilderment.
  • *, I.46:
  • *:altering Vaudemont'', to ''Vallemontanus , and metamorphosing them, by suting them to the Græcian or Latin tongue, we know not what to make of them, and are often at a non-plus .
  • * South
    • Both of them are a perfect nonplus and baffle to all human understanding.

    Verb

  • to perplex or bewilder someone; to confound or flummox

    • Derived terms

    * nonplussed

    hoodwink

    English

    (wikipedia hoodwink)

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (archaic) To cover the eyes with a hood; to blindfold.
  • * , Folio Society, 2006, vol.1 p.81:
    • Some there are, that through feare anticipate the hangmans hand; as he did, whose friends having obtained his pardon, and putting away the cloth wherewith he was hood-winkt , that he might heare it read, was found starke dead upon the scaffold, wounded only by the stroke of imagination.
  • To deceive or trick.
    • I feel like the salesman hoodwinked me into buying right away.