Green’s Dictionary of Slang

give over! excl.

(UK, mainly northern) stop it! shut up!

[UK]Bridges Burlesque Homer (4th edn) I 131: Give o’er, ye silly dogs! he cries.
[UK]M. Scott Tom Cringle’s Log (1834) 491: Confound it, Don, give over — do, now, you mad long-legged son of a gun!
[UK]Flash Dict. in Sinks of London Laid Open 102: Cheese it, stow it, give over, drop it.
[UK]Kendal Mercury 3 Apr. 6/2: Vy, blow me, if he dident turn up his blinkers (eyes) like a croaking quacker (dying duck), and said, ‘if you doesn’t give hover, I’ll get my mother to mill your napper (punch your head).
[Aus]Bulletin (Sydney) 8 Jan. 8/3: While entreating that bold rover / To ‘’a done’ or else ‘give over,’ / Or coquettishly says ‘drop it,’ / Or, ‘Now, ’Arry, just you stop it.’.
[UK]‘Morris the Mohel’ ‘Houndsditch Day By Day’ in Sporting Times 11 Jan. 3: ‘All right,’ I sayth, ‘give over.’.
[UK]A.N. Lyons Arthur’s 309: Give over, you saucy ’ound!
[UK]W.L. George Making of an Englishman I 71: ‘Give over,’ she said as she snatched her hand away.
[UK](con. WWI) ‘Taffrail’ ‘A Little Drop o’ Leaf’ in Little Ship 246: She gasped for breath, and told him to ‘give over.’.
[UK]J. Cary Horse’s Mouth (1948) 257: Do give over.
[UK]H.E. Bates Darling Buds of May (1985) 19: Give over. Can’t you see I’m cutting the pineapple.
[UK]A. Wesker Chips with Everything I ii: Give over, Wilfe, give over.
[UK]T. Parker Frying-Pan 137: Oh, give over.
[UK]P. Theroux London Embassy 152: ‘Give over,’ Cary said.
[UK]J. Cameron It Was An Accident 62: Give over Nicky, you never change do you?
[Ire]P Howard Braywatch 20: ‘Give over. You were riding everything with a body temperature in UCD. How could you not have been happy?’.