Muddle vs Nonplus - What's the difference?

Muddle is a related term of nonplus.

As verbs the difference between muddle and nonplus

is that muddle is to mix together, to mix up; to confuse while nonplus is to perplex or bewilder someone; to confound or flummox.

As nouns the difference between muddle and nonplus

is that muddle is a mixture; a confusion; a garble while nonplus is a state of perplexity or bewilderment.

muddle

English

Verb

(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.

Derived terms

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

Noun

(en noun)

A mixture; a confusion; a garble.

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

Derived terms

* muddle-headed

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