Green’s Dictionary of Slang

(orig. US) an excl. of absolute denial.

1837		A. Greene Glance at N.Y. I ii: harry: Why, Mose, don’t you remember me? mose: No sir-ree, I don’t.
1848		G.F. Ruxton Life in the Far West (1849) 4: No sirre-e; I went out when Spiers lost his animals.
1850		‘Ned Buntline’ G’hals of N.Y. 67: ’Cause I aint one of them softies wot blow upon themselves. No sir-ree, horse! [Ibid.] 131: I haven’t forgot you – I haven’t. No, siree!
1857		Sun (Baltimore) 20 Mar. n.p.: The judge, addressing the man, said: ‘Sir, are you drunk?’ The juror, straightening himself up, in a bold, defiant tone replied: ‘No Sir-ree, Bob!’.
1859		‘Timothy Titcomb’ Letters to Young People 141: But if you have a ‘sneakin’ notion’ for being a ‘regular brick,’ there is no other way [...] no sir-ree-hoss?
1861		Liverpool Mercury 24 Sept. 6/7: The reply was ‘No, siree Bob!’.
1867		G.E. Clark Seven Years of a Sailor’s Life 259: Do you think I’d lug a load on my back like a mule? No sir-ee.
1874		F.C. Burnand My Time 379: I wouldn’t have him back; no siree, not on no account!
1882		W.A. Baillie-Grohman Camps in the Rockies 94: Now that won’t wash, Sireebob; you ain’t clever enough for that.
1884		(con. c.1840) ‘Mark Twain’ Huckleberry Finn 269: No-sirree-bob, they ain’t no trouble ’bout that speculation, you bet you.
1894		Akron Beacon Jrnl (OH) 17 Jan. 8/5: ‘No siree, he ain’t no burglar’s accomplice’.
1895		Whitstable Times 30 Nov. 6/4: ‘No, siree, Bob!’ yelled the crowd.
1904		E. Robins Magnetic North 169: No Siree! The Jesuits go the whole hog!
1911		L. Pound ‘A Second Word-List From Nebraska’ in DN III:vii 546: no-sirree-bob-tailed-rooster, interj. Used in emphatic denial.
1916		R. Service ‘The Ballad of Soulful Sam’ in Rhymes of a Red Cross Man 111: No, siree! not by a long sight!
1922		R. McAlmon ‘The Baby of the Family’ in A Hasty Bunch 77: No siree, I’m going swimming.
1933		Billie Holiday ‘Your Mother’s Son-In-Law’ 🎵 You don’t have to have a hanker / To be a broker or a banker; / No, sirree, just live to be / My mother’s son-in-law!
1933		Tamworth Herald 20 May 6: The long and short of it was, these chaps couldn’t do it [...] ‘No siree Bob!’.
1940		O. Strange Sudden Takes the Trail 76: No, sirree, I’m aimin’ to even up with this place.
1949		Kerouac letter 28 June in Charters I (1995) 207: No siree-bone!
1956		H. Gold Man Who Was Not With It (1965) 112: Ain’t been deflowered yet, either, have you honey? No sir ee.
1964		P. White Burnt Ones 71: I was never cut out for any sort of academic wife. No sirree!
1971		B. Malamud Tenants (1972) 31: No siree, man. That stays with papa.
1977		R. Coover Public Burning (1979) 415: It ain’t over yet! Nosirree, bob.
1992		N. Stephenson Snow Crash (1993) 312: Nothing in the world like it, nosireebob.
1999		Indep. Traveller 9 Oct. 1: The other insisted he did not think of it as a job, no sirree, he was helping to make people’s dream come true.
2000		Star-Gaz. (Elmira, NY) 16 June 30/3: You can be darn sure Curt ain’t gettin’ a single one of ’em. Nosiree Bob.