Phrase guide

dog's breakfast

noun · 3 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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noun

Meaning 1

An unappealing mixture; a disorderly situation; a mess.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, idiomatic

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: cat's breakfast, pig's breakfast, hodgepodge, pig's ear, dog's dinner, bedlam, car crash, chaos, confusion, disarray, disorder, disorganization, dog's breakfast, free-for-all, fuddle, hash, hot mess, imbroglio, mash, maze, mess, misorder, mommick, muddle, mullock, muss, shambles, shemozzle, snarl, tangle, topsy-turviness, upfuckery, bouillabaisse, bric-a-brac, catch-all, clamjamfrey, cocktail, rummage, salad, anthology, gallery, congeries, crazyquilt, disjecta membra, farrago, galimatias, gallimaufry, grab bag, horse and rabbit stew, hotchpotch, hotchpot, job lot, jumble, macedoine, medley, melange, mingle-mangle, miscellanea, miscellany, mishmash, mixed bag, mixture, motley, odds and ends, oddments, olio, olla podrida, omnium-gatherum, pastiche, patchwork quilt, potpourri, ragbag, salmagundi, slurry, smorgasbord, welter, Whitman's sampler

Antonyms: none provided

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noun

Meaning 2

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see dog, breakfast.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

3

noun

Meaning 3

a poor job; a mess

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • they made a real dog's breakfast of that job

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: dog's dinner

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: fix, hole, jam, mess, muddle, pickle, kettle of fish

History

Etymology

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