Dogwater

adj, noun, slang

adj, noun, slang ·Moderate ·College level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The very core of someone; used as an intensifier. US, dialectal, uncountable

    "to beat the dogwater out of"

  2. 2
    Pre-ejaculate. US, slang, uncountable

    "Horse said, "Man, that ain't nothin' but dog water." / K.B. said, "That ain't no dog water, man, 'cause it's slimy.""

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

    "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."

Example

More examples

"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."

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”).

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.