dogwater

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dogwater

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Compound of dog + water. According to Know Your Meme, the video game sense was popularized by Fortnite streamer Zachology on December 10 2020 as a euphemism for dogshit (“rubbish, bad”).

adjective more dogwater · most dogwater · dog-water · dog water

  1. slang Extremely bad or unskilled (especially at a video game); trash. 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.

    Similar: garbage, dogshit, dog

noun dog-water · dog water

  1. US, dialectal, uncountable The very core of someone; used as an intensifier. to beat the dogwater out of
  2. US, slang, uncountable Pre-ejaculate. Horse said, "Man, that ain't nothin' but dog water." / K.B. said, "That ain't no dog water, man, 'cause it's slimy."

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@misc{dogwater_2026,
  title = {dogwater},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/dogwater},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}