Green’s Dictionary of Slang

a general excl. of surprise, annoyance etc, i.e. I’ll be damned!

1847		Cheltenham Chron. 15 July 4/2: ‘You be blowed,’ said a broad faced looking gentleman [...] ‘Be blowed yourself,’ quoth one of my [...] friends.
1858		G. Thompson Gay Girls of N.Y. 112: ‘One dollar be blowed!’ cried Jotham, indignantly.
1868		Chelmsford Chron. 20 Nov. 7/1: Swells in stalls: ‘Encore! Encore!’ —Party in pit: ‘Oncore be blowed!’.
1875		M.D. Landon Eli Perkins 12: That first glass of wine be blowed.
1888		‘’Arry on Competitive Examination’ in Punch 1 Dec. 253/2: They may give it fine names like be blowed, but I call it a blooming Knock-Out.
1892		Blackburn Standard 14 May 7/6: ‘Be blowed,’ says he.
1903		Cheltenham Chron. 25 Apr. 7/6: One man told the master [...] that he’d ‘be blowed’ if he would do it.
1912		Day Book (Chicago) 13 Sept. 16/2: ‘Sausages be blowed!’ said the would-be pheasant purchaser.
1929		T. Thursday ‘And Howe’ in Everybody’s Feb. 🌐 ‘Book be blowed!’ I snaps.
1940		Yorks. Eve. Post 7 Sept. 4/3: There is [...] an increased desire to carry on and ‘be blowed to Hitler’.
1950		Aberdeen jrnl 3 Aug. 1/5: You can say ‘Be blowed to the lot of you,’ and walk out.