Green’s Dictionary of Slang

a general excl. of derision.

1700		‘Ballad on the Old Proverbs’ in Playford Pills to Purge Melancholy II 112: Yet you would say, if you knew all within, / Shitten come Shite the beginning of Love is, / And for her Faavour I care not a pin.
1934		H. Roth Call It Sleep (1977) 376: It’s them! No good shitten them! [...] Shitten, goybeads!