Green’s Dictionary of Slang

blasted adj.¹

1. a euph. for damned.

1682		Dryden ‘The Medal’ in Works (1899) line 259: What curses on thy blasted name will fall!
1750		Chesterfield Letters 8 Jan. 169: Colonel Chartres ... who was, I believe, the most notorious blasted rascal in the world [F&H].
1794		W. Godwin Caleb Williams (1966) 103: Go, shrink into your miserable self! Begone, and never let me be blasted with your sight again!
1815		D. Roberts Military Adventures of Johnny Newcome II 42: Such bl-st-d roads will make a fellow crazy!
1818		‘A. Burton’ Adventures of Johnny Newcome II 118: In my born days I ne’er did chop Before on such a bl—sted fop, As Newcome there!
1833		C.A. Davis Letters of Major J. Downing (1835) 35: Arter dinner I tell’d the Ginral about that are blasted rascal, Enoch Bissel.
1846		Lives of the Felons 54: I cannot endure to see a ‘square’ man and a fine fellow blasted for my offences.
1848		‘Ned Buntline’ Mysteries and Miseries of N.Y. I 13: You’re too blasted good-hearted to be on the tramp.
1859		C. Abbey diary 16 Aug. in Gosnell Before the Mast (1989) 207: That blasted steward.
1865		Leaves from Diary of Celebrated Burglar 25/2: No, I hain’t got hit [...] but I know blarsted well where it is.
1869		C.G. Leland ‘Breitmann in Politics’ in Hans Breitmann About Town 30: Dis plasted plackguard none-sense / Ve couldn’t no means shtand.
1873		W.H. Thomes Slaver’s Adventures 55: See that blasted ship — how she is gaining on us!
1881		Dly Astorian (OR) 5 Feb. 2/2: Some blarsted Yankees will take the initiative.
1885		Bulletin (Sydney) 4 Apr. 11/4: [They] fairly drove him off the stage with the most dangerous chunks of their own anatomies, and fierce yells of ‘Down with the blasted grave-scooper,’ ‘Put ’im in the white hat,’ ‘Who stole the fixin’s of my coffin and sold ’em to the Chinamen for old lead?’.
1887		G. Devol Forty Years a Gambler 245: They were often in the bar-room after the bloody, blarsted wine.
1888		‘Rolf Boldrewood’ Robbery Under Arms (1922) 348: You’ve been doing it fine at the Turon races along with a lot of blasted swells.
1893–5		H. Lawson ‘Two Sundowners’ in Roderick (1972) 100: You’re so blasted touchy and suspicious about it.
1899		C. Rook Hooligan Nights 18: One of them blarsted whistles started ’em.
1899		J. Flynt Tramping with Tramps 92: Why dont they get out o’ those blasted holes and come over here?
1902		W.N. Harben Abner Daniel 300: The blasted blockhead!
1913		Sun. Times (Perth) 11 May 11s/1: This same class [...] ‘’ave no time for blarsted pommies’.
1916		Rising Sun 25 Dec. 3/3: When this blasted war is over and we gets off home / You’ll always find a welcome if out there you chance to roam.
1918		‘Sapper’ Human Touch 92: ‘This blarsted fool,’ announced his loving wife [...] ‘wants to ’list.’.
1922		S.V. Benét Young People’s Pride 173: Oh dammit, you know how blasted sorry I am.
1926		F. Bason Diary I (1950) 28: Blasted cheek? Well — he can refuse [an autograph].
1930		N. Lindsay Redheap (1965) 9: ‘I’m fed up with this blasted rot,’ he exclaimed, as a general expression of emotion inspired by the Sabbath.
1932		(con. 1919) Dos Passos Nineteen Nineteen in USA (1966) 366: There was a lot of guying about the blahsted banahnas down in the fo’c’stle.
1936		Wodehouse ‘Good-bye to All Cats’ in Young Men in Spats 125: ‘Since I perceive this is a blasted Zoo. I will withdraw’.
1941		V. Davis Phenomena in Crime 196: I was showing her that blasted watch.
1956		S. Selvon Lonely Londoners 74: The whole blasted family come to give me grey hair before my time.
1961		V.S. Naipaul A House For Mr Biswas 173: I ain’t even seen the blasted man yet.
1970		S. Naipaul Fireflies 179: ‘Just like that blasted camera,’ he muttered.
1978		D. Marechera House of Hunger (2013) [ebook] And that blasted barman was still staring with great interest into my face.
1980		M. Thelwell Harder They Come 222: Then it would be time to leave Preacha an’ the Tabernacle and all the blasted rules.
1989		T. Blacker Fixx 248: I began to lose patience with Sarah and her blasted career.
1996		J. Cameron It Was An Accident 105: You tell them it none of their blasted business.
2000		P. Beatty Tuff 207: I don’t need the money, of course, I do it for the blasted thrill.
2006		W. Chen Chutney Power and Stories 64: Shut up. I ent see food for days and I blasted nervous.

2. as an infix.

1899		T.W.H. Crosland ‘The Absent-Minded Mule’ in Absent-Minded Mule and Verses 8: What mule? – pot mule – son of a blawsted gun.
1914		W.L. George Making of an Englishman II 199: He [...] shouted ‘Hooray! Hoo-blastedray.’.
2001		(con. 1981) A. Wheatle East of Acre Lane 139: ‘’Ave you got the wad?’ ‘Of blasted course, man.’.

In compounds

blasted brimstone (n.) [brimstone n. (1)]

(UK Und.) a prostitute.

1785, 1788, 1796		Grose Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue.
1811		Lex. Balatronicum.
1823		Egan Grose’s Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue.

blasted fellow (n.)

a complete villain.

1785, 1788, 1796		Grose Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue.
1811		Lex. Balatronicum.
1823		Egan Grose’s Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue.
1823		‘Jon Bee’ A Dict. of the Turf, The Ring, The Chase, etc. 11: Blasted fellow or bitch — one whose character is nullus, and may be ‘blasted’ with impunity.

In derivatives

blastedly (adv.)

damnedly.

1832		Norfolk Chron. 4 Aug. 3/1: The prisoner said, madam, blast you [...] She said, you blastedly cowardly rascal.
1845		J. Lindridge Sixteen-String Jack 83: If I ain’t blastedly mistaken, he’ll wake up with a prime pair of mahogany-framed eyes in the morning, eh?