dogwater
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dog-water
form: dog water
Etymology: 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”).
Senses: examples: text: to beat the dogwater out of
text: […] 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?
ref: 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:
text: 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.
ref: 1898 February 11, “Editorial”, in The Clay County Republican, volume 6, number 37, →OCLC, page 4:
text: 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.
ref: 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:
text: 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!"
ref: 1958, Al Dewlen, The Bone Pickers, New York, N.Y.; Toronto, O.N.; London: McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., page 133:
text: 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.
ref: 1997 February 1, Tom Duncan, “What is a M-44 Mosin Nagant worth???”, in rec.guns (Usenet):
text: "Masel, sit down, or I'll shake ye up to dogwater!" Gladys scolded her daughter. When Masel didn't sit down right away, Gladys added, "I ain't talkin' just to hear my head rattle."
ref: 2002, Kelly Simmons, Leona's Legacy: Memories of a Farmer's Daughter, Woodruff, W.I.: The Guest Cottage, →ISBN, page 5:
glosses: The very core of someone; used as an intensifier.
examples: text: Horse said, "Man, that ain't nothin' but dog water." / K.B. said, "That ain't no dog water, man, 'cause it's slimy."
ref: 1965, Claude Brown, Manchild in the Promised Land, New York, N.Y.: Signet Books, page 80:
text: 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.
ref: 1979, William Styron, Sophie's Choice, New York, N.Y.: Alfred A. Knopf, →ISBN, page 189:
text: No dry spasms, piss or clear drops of 'dog water,' according to the glib rule sheet, concocted several days before at the Screw offices.
ref: 1986, Josh Alan Friedman, “Pecker Full of Miracles”, in Tales of Times Square, New York, N.Y.: Delacorte Press, →ISBN, page 103:
text: What! Button up your britches, li'l ole boy, she said. You ain't even old enough to dogwater.
ref: [1999, Ralph Ellison, Juneteenth, New York, N.Y.: Random House, →ISBN, page 59:
text: "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.
ref: 2006, Bill Gaston, Gargoyles, Toronto, O.N.: House of Anansi Press, published 2007, →ISBN, page 244:
glosses: Pre-ejaculate.