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dog's breakfasts

dog's breakfasts is the plural of dog's breakfast.

Meaning of dog's breakfast

Noun

dog's breakfast (plural dog's breakfasts)

  1. (Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, idiomatic) An unappealing mixture; a disorderly situation; a mess.
    • So complex was the scheme that neither blacks nor whites could say for certain who had won. "A dog's breakfast," cried Laborite M.P. James Callaghan. "I say frankly that I do not begin to understand it."1961 July 7, “Black Temper”, in Time, archived from the original on 03 Feb 2012
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see dog, breakfast.
    • And the next morning she got up to fix breakfast: the old lady had told her, she had to fix her breakfast, the old lady's breakfast, the cat's breakfast, the dog's breakfast, and the bull's breakfast.(Can we date this quote?), Alfred Anderson, “59. The Lazy Sisters and the Smart Sister”, in Swapping Stories: Folktales from Louisiana, University Press of Mississippi, page 133

Questions about dog's breakfasts

What is dog's breakfasts the plural of?
Dog's breakfasts is the plural of dog's breakfast.

Words near dog's breakfasts in the dictionary

  1. dog's age
  2. dog's ballocks
  3. dog's body
  4. dog's bollocks
  5. dog's breakfast
  6. dog's breakfasts
  7. dog's chance
  8. dog's cherries
  9. dog's cherry
  10. dog's dangly bits
  11. dog's dinner

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