Green’s Dictionary of Slang

a general expletive, used euph. for a variety of taboo synons.

1900		Bulletin (Sydney) 3 Nov. 20/4: The fact constitutes a blistering scandal, but one impossible to resent.
1900		Daily News (London) 30 July 6/4: One blistering young woman actually unstraps her kodak and begins operations upon the great white mountain .
1916		N. Douglas London Street Games 37: I’m goin to be blowed ef I play wiv a lahsy blisterin blitherin blinkin blightin bloomin bleedin blasted baastard.
1930		J. Lait Gangster Girl 150: [He] nervously spun out the bottle of the blistering nepenthese of a hell that held no terror for Tim.
1942		Whizzbang Comics 64: The blistering swabs!
1966		C. Stead Cotters’ England (1980) 125: Why were blistering blasted bourgeois buggers admitted to such congresses at all [...] when their only object was to manhunt?
1967		J. Wynnum I’m a Jack, All Right 52: We’re in no blistering hurry.