Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. (US) a retort to express rejection, derision etc, to hell with.

1928		J.M. Marsh Set-Up 24: Aw, hell! Nuts to you! [HDAS].
1931		W.R. Burnett Silver Eagle 22: The cashier came back quickly and whispered to the Italian, but he pushed the cashier away. Turning he called to Harworth: ‘Nuts, you!’.
1934		B. Appel Brain Guy (1937) 83: ‘You’re a skinny runt.’ ‘Nuts to you.’.
1943		M. Curtiss Letters Home (1944) 25 Feb. 271: When the Japs attack they yell ‘Blood for the Empire!’ We would yell back at them ‘Nuts to you Tojo’.
1945		‘Bullshit’ in Mess Songs & Rhymes of the RAAF 23: So Airboard, Nuts to you!
1959		C. Himes Crazy Kill 73: Nuts to them mother-rapers, they ain’t got nothing on us.
1960		E. De Roo Big Rumble 12: Nuts to coolies. The hell with coolies!
1989		R. Dahl Rhyme Stew (1990) 41: The little tree looked down at me / And whispered, ‘Nuts to you’.
2004		E. Weiner Drop Dead, My Lovely (2005) 22: If I had only known then what I know now . . . well, nuts to that.

2. see nuts n.¹ (1)