dog's dinner vs pickle

dog's dinner and pickle both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
dog's dinner	Yes	No	No	No
pickle	Yes	No	Yes	No

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

Other hypernyms of dog's dinner include fix, hole, jam, kettle of fish, mess, muddle.

dog's dinner (noun)	pickle (noun)
a poor job; a mess	vegetables (especially cucumbers) preserved in brine or vinegar
	informal terms for a difficult situation

dog's dinner (verb)	pickle (verb)
	preserve in a pickling liquid