dog's breakfast vs muddle

dog's breakfast and muddle both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
dog's breakfast	Yes	No	No	No
muddle	Yes	No	Yes	No

As nouns, muddle is a hypernym of dog's breakfast; that is, muddle is a word with a broader meaning than dog's breakfast:

Other hypernyms of dog's breakfast include fix, hole, jam, kettle of fish, mess, pickle.

dog's breakfast (noun)	muddle (noun)
a poor job; a mess	a confused multitude of things
	informal terms for a difficult situation

dog's breakfast (verb)	muddle (verb)
	mix up or confuse
	make into a puddle