dogwater
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English[edit]
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Etymology[edit]
Compound of dog + water. According to Know Your Meme, the video game sense was popularized by Fortnite streamer Zachology in December 2020 as a euphemism for dogshit (“rubbish, bad”).
Adjective[edit]
dogwater (comparative more dogwater, superlative most dogwater)
- (video games, slang) Extremely bad or unskilled (especially at a video game); trash. [from 2020]
- 2021 April 21, Matthew Wilkins, quoting SypherPK, “Fortnite streamers are in disbelief after watching how over-powered the Exotic Grappler Bow is”, in Sportskeeda[1], archived from the original on 2023-05-23:
- This is kinda my favorite exotic, I'm not gonna lie. Some of the exotic released have been dogwater but this one, so good, so good.
- 2022 October 7, Jacob Hale, “Nadia pops off on toxic Warzone teammate after being told to "abort herself"”, in Dexerto[2], archived from the original on 2022-12-05:
- Nadia went on, saying that the player "sucks" and is "f**king ass," not letting them get a single response in, even calling her a "dogwater smelling ass b*tch."
- 2022 November 27, Joe Parlock, “Is It Time To Retire My Favourite Commander Deck?”, in TheGamer[3], archived from the original on 2022-11-29:
- I'd dabbled a little bit before and made a few that either broke rules I didn't know existed (Lutri, the Spellchaser), or were so incredibly dogwater that they lasted maybe a game or two before being pulled apart (Ishai, Ojutai Dragonspeaker), but Kwain was my first love.
- 2023 January 30, Tatiana Louder, “I'm a 'gamer girl' and a model – just one hour of playing Call of Duty with men left me disgusted”, in The US Sun[4], archived from the original on 2023-03-22:
- Immediately, a presumably male gamer voice said, "Ay yo you're terrible. Dogwater."
- 2023 March 30, Bamira Burino, “Murchison Tower levels up”, in The Tritonian[5], archived from the original on 2023-05-23:
- When we tried to get a statement from Danderson's close online friend, [SEN] Unwell, he refused further comments when we brought up his friendship with Danderson. / "Dogwater," was all Unwell had to share after our initial introductions.
Noun[edit]
dogwater (uncountable)
- (US, dialectal) The very core of someone; used as an intensifier.
- to beat the dogwater out of
- 1870, William Falconer, Bloom and Brier; Or, as I Saw It, Long Ago. A Southern Romance, Philadelphia, P.A., Montgomery, A.L.: Claxton, Remsen & Haffelfinger; Joel White, pages 255–256:
- […] after the pulling is over with, we shall expect to have, at least, twenty first-class fights, and several eyes lying about loose on the ground, and as many ears and noses; and rather than fall short of the number, I'll agree to mall the dog-water out of five or six of you myself—do you understand the programme now?
- 1898 February 11, “Editorial”, in The Clay County Republican, volume 6, number 37, →OCLC, page 4:
- It keeps up a continual bushwhacking fire on the Populist party, and occasionally, for the public good, we take of the old traitor and shake the dog-water out of him, just for the amusement of the public.
- 1957 October 20, Roy Bedichek, “to John Henry Faulk”, in Letters of Roy Bedichek, Austin, T.X.: University of Texas Press, published 1985, →ISBN, page 507:
- Late triumphs of Russian science are scaring the very dogwater out of large elements in our society, and we both fear more "purging" instead of more effort at catching up.
- 1958, Al Dewlen, The Bone Pickers, New York, N.Y., Toronto, O.N., London: McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., page 133:
- When she remembered, The Old Place seemed to echo still with Papa's drunken, timbery shout, "When I speak to you, then jump, yu' little snotboxes! Else I'll slap the dogwater out of you!"
- 1997 February 1, Tom Duncan, “What is a M-44 Mosin Nagant worth???”, in rec.guns[6] (Usenet):
- Why pay that much for a short rifle that will kick the bee-jesus out of you (and the muzzle blast is just darned impressive) when there are lots of M91/30's out there for well less than $50 and Sako made Finnish M39's out there for less than $100? My $40 M91/30 is pretty damned accurate and doesn't beat the dog-water out of you.
- (US, slang) Semen.
- 1965, Claude Brown, Manchild in the Promised Land, New York, N.Y.: Signet Books, page 80:
- Horse said, "Man, that ain't nothin' but dog water." / K.B. said, "That ain't no dog water, man, 'cause it's slimy."
- 1979, William Styron, Sophie's Choice, New York, N.Y.: Alfred A. Knopf, →ISBN, page 189:
- Leslie unlocks the front door she remarks that, it being Thursday, it is Minnie's night off, and I construe this to lay emphasis on the privacy we will have. In the soft light of the foyer my membrum, betrousered, is truly rampant. Also a spot of "dogwater" there, pre-coital seepage, as if a puppy had peed in my lap.
- 1986, Josh Alan Friedman, “Pecker Full of Miracles”, in Tales of Times Square, New York, N.Y.: Delacorte Press, →ISBN, page 103:
- No dry spasms, piss or clear drops of 'dog water,' according to the glib rule sheet, concocted several days before at the Screw offices.
- [1999, Ralph Ellison, Juneteenth, New York, N.Y.: Random House, →ISBN, page 59:
- What! Button up your britches, li'l ole boy, she said. You ain't even old enough to dogwater.]
- 2006, Bill Gaston, Gargoyles, Toronto, O.N.: House of Anansi Press, published 2007, →ISBN, page 244:
- "Not tossin' the dogwater to anyone in particular?" / I have to smile, "toss the dogwater" being Rooney's terms for sex, something we haven't heard in more than twenty years.
References[edit]
- “dogwater”, in Know Your Meme, launched 2007
- Jonathon Green (2024) “dog water n.”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang
Further reading[edit]
- “dogwater”, in Urban Dictionary, launched 1999.