Green’s Dictionary of Slang

(orig. US) rubbish! nonsense!

1925		(con. 1899) H.P. Bailey Shanghaied Out of Frisco 95: ‘But, Ben, poor old Senn can’t talk English!’ I broke in. ‘Bull’s foot! He can jest talk English as plain as I can, or the President of the United States!’.
1933		‘George Orwell’ Down and Out in Complete Works I (1986) 194: There was some silly casus belli about one saying to the other, ‘Bullshit’.
c.1940		‘Tillie & Mac with Mr Simpkins and Bubbles’ [comic strip] in B. Adelman Tijuana Bibles (1997) 24: Ah bull shit. I’ll screw him silly any day.
1952		(con. 1948) G. Mandel Flee the Angry Strangers 153: Bullshit, Stoney! By God, you gangle-assed fatmouth.
1967		letter 5 Sept. in Edelman Dear America (1985) 179: I said bul----!, that I wasn’t hurt that bad and he had to stay at his gun.
1971		D. Goines Dopefiend (1991) 86: ‘Bullshit!’ Red and Tiny Tim both said together.
1982		W. Wharton Midnight Clear 128: Bull toads!
1985		B. Humphries Traveller’s Tool 13: I say a categorical ‘bull-shit’.
1996		P. Temple Bad Debts (2012) [ebook] ‘I might have kept him out of jail.’ [...] ‘Bullshit, mate’.
1997		L. Pettiway Workin’ It 114: Little bullshit! I got into fights at school a couple of times, nothing serious. ’Cause she punched me. Little bullshit, you know, ’cause she don’t like me ’cause I was maybe the first one with a pair of sneakers on. Stuff like that.
1999		K. Sampson Powder 70: Bullshit! I came up with the fucken name so I should know . . . Maybe I just never told anyone why!
2000		C. Cook Robbers (2001) 7: Bullshit, said Edie. They got a law for everything.
2006		G. Iles Turning Angel 93: ‘Bullshit!’ yells one of the boys.
2011		S. Kelman Pigeon English 63: Bullshit. I could do it one-handed.
2021		P. Papathanasiou Stoning 91: ‘Not everyone’s a paedo.’ ‘Bullshit’.