Green’s Dictionary of Slang

a coarse and evasive response, implying the speaker’s lack of interest in a statement/question, e.g. ask mine arse/ass! ask my arse/ass! ask my ballocks!ask my eye! ask my left one! ask my sack! ax my arse! ax my foot! ax my pooper! ax my spiff!

1761		Nancy Dawson’s Jests 4: A gentleman [...] asked how he [i.e. an alleged homosexual] made such a grand appearance [...] Why, says another who was by, to be sure he should desire you to ask his a-se.
c.1786		Grose Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue ms. additions n.p.: Ask my A—se, a common Reply to any Question. Still deemed wit at Sea. & formerly at Court, under the description of selling Bargains.
1788, 1796		Grose Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue (2nd, 3rd edn) n.p.: Ask, or Ax my A–e. A common reply to any question; still deemed wit at sea, and formerly at court, under the denomination of selling bargains.
1798		‘Medley’ in Hilaria 38: ‘Whose dog is that?’ quoth the carman, ‘ask his a— ,sir’.
1811		Lex. Balatronicum.
1823		Egan Grose’s Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue.
1827		High Life in London 30 Dec. 3/2: [He] very naturally desired to know of Molly Walton what was the cause of the uproar, when she replied, in language that we blush to write, ‘Ax my eye’.
1836		song title in New Cockalorum Songster in Spedding & Watt (eds) Bawdy Songbooks (2011) II 24: Ax My Eye.
1837		‘Bill Hart and Kitty Miles’ in Icky-Wickey Songster 22: Bill thought as how the joke he’d pass, / So points to his moke, and cried, ‘Ax my ass!’.
1839		Crim.-Con. Gaz. 5 Jan. 7/3: [He] say, what am you name my good lady — old woman [...] say, ‘Ak my — ’.
1841		F.L.G. Swells Night Out n.p.: ‘Who the h-- are you?’ &c. and which, if returned [...] answered by ‘Ax my a---,’ or some such elegant retort.
1846		Swell’s Night Guide 60: Ratherish, my rum’un, ax the flyer else.
1847		Bell’s Life in Sydney 16 Oct. 2/5: To which interrogation she did reply by ‘Ax my eye’ or any other conventional term.
1850		Tipperary Free Press 16 Feb. 3/3: The cry ‘the Pump broke,’ still reached from the street. Oh (thought I) this a new cant [like] ‘ax mv eye,’ ‘does your mother know you're out,’ &c , &c.
c.1850		Peeping Tom (London) 39 156/2: She cocked her eye [and] exclaimed— ‘Ax my eye, you pig’.
1866		Wild Boys of London I 157/1: Wot’s that to do with you? Ax my foot.
1870		Cythera’s Hymnal 65: If you want, my dear, to see / The effect you’ve had on me, / You should ax, my dear, should ax, my dear, my eye.
1870		Cyther’s Hyman 79: There was a young maid of Cardiff, / Whose father one day asked if / To church she would walk / To hear some good talk, / When the young maid replied, ‘Ax my spiff’.
1880		‘Ode’ in Pearl 7 Jan. 9: A woodman cutting down a tree, / Did slip, and, barely missing me, / Did axe my Ass!
1888–94		‘Walter’ My Secret Life (1966) VI 1163: If she asks you, tell her to ax your pooper.
1922		Joyce Ulysses 523: Ask my ballocks that I haven’t got.
1942		(con. 1890s) S. O’Casey Pictures in the Hallway 153: Ask me arse! said Johnny shortly.
1950		S. Murphy Stone Mad (1966) 131: ‘Ask me ass,’ said Danny. ‘D’ye think I’ve nothing else to do but talk about stone?’.
1975		J. Ryan Remembering How We Stood 91: I might have got off with a simple ‘Axe me arse’ – but even that I was in no mood to relish.
1991		B.B. Quinn Smokey Hollow 96: She drew a breath, looked at them impatiently, and said: ‘Ah, ask me arse.’.
2002		Blue Pages (Dublin) ‘Dublin Dictionary’ 🌐 Axe me left one Similar to ‘axe me bollix’ or ‘axe me sack’, but can also be used by females due to ‘left one’ reference.
2002		O’Byrne Files: Dublin Sl. Dict. 🌐 Ask me arse phr. Vigorous rebuttal.