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noun Chiefly Canadian Slang.

a disorderly mixture; hodgepodge.

Origin:
1935–40

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dog's breakfast
noun
a poor job; a mess; "they made a real dog's breakfast of that job"

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Dogs-breakfast is always a great word to know.

So is bezoar. Does it mean:

a fool or simpleton; ninny.

a calculus or concretion found in the stomach or intestines of certain animals, esp. ruminants, formerly reputed to be an effective remedy for poison.

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"Telephone poles were matchsticks, put there to be snapped off at a whim. Dogs trotting across the road were suddenly big trucks. Old ladies turned into moving—vans. Everything was too bright, but very funny and made for my delight. And about half a mile from my long liquid breakfast I turned carefully down a side street and parked, and sat beaming happily through the tannic fog for about an hour, remembering how witty we all had been, how handsome and talented ... [ellipsis in original]"

-M.F.K. Fisher

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