Green’s Dictionary of Slang

an excl. of annoyance, esp. when an inanimate object or a previously determined plan of action fails to function as required.

1938		F.D. Sharpe Sharpe of the Flying Squad 75: B--- it, I haven’t got the keys.
1942		J. MacLaren-Ross ‘I Had to Go Sick’ in Memoirs of the Forties (1984) 270: I’d have slept like the dead if Jerry hadn’t dropped a bomb. [...] ‘Bugger it [...] Now we’ll have to go to the trenches.’.
1945		R.S. Close Love me Sailor 171: Bugger it all mister.
1952		K. Amis letter 19 May in Leader (2000) 280: Aw bugger them, and bugger it, and bugger me.
1965		E. Bond Saved Scene ix: Juss when I’m late. Bugger it.
1976		P. Theroux Family Arsenal 73: ‘I know where we can double it,’ she says. ‘Bugger it,’ said Murf.
1977		(con. 1941) R. Beilby Gunner 47: Bugger it! A man’s got to battle for himself some time.
1977		in K. Gilbert Living Black 289: So you say, ‘Oh, well, bugger it, that’s it,’ you know?
1981		A. Weller Day of the Dog 123: Aaaaah, shit — bugger everything.
1986		R.G. Barrett Godson 45: Aah, bugger it, he thought. It’s only for two nights.
1986		F. Taylor Auf Wiedersehen Pet Two 9: Bugger it, he’d go.
1996		J. Byrell Lairs, Urgers & Coat-Tuggers 304: ‘Ah, shit a brick and bugger it!’.
1999		Guardian Weekend 23 Oct. 75: Aw, bugger it my ’andsome!
2000		Indep. on Sun. Mag. 9 Apr. 62: Oh bugger it, I haven’t got anything in common with him anymore.
2004		T. Winton ‘Reunion’ in Turning (2005) 210: Bugger it, Mum.
2012		A. WrAngles ‘A Forgiving Kind of Nature’ in Crime Factory: Hard Labour [ebook] Bugger it, I’d go down there and help him.