Green’s Dictionary of Slang

god-damn n.¹

an oath; var. on damn n.; thus not give a good goddam v.

1714		A. Smith Lives of Most Noted Highway-men, etc. I 20: Whose Vanity it is to flourish their Swords in the midst of twenty G—d D—n me’s.
1838		Crim.-Con. Gaz 1 Sept. 16/2: He accoringly mustered up courage to meet the Frenchman [...] swore numberless G—d d—m’s at him, and concluded with a threat of a challenge.
1890		Dly Gaz. for Middlesborough 19 Mar. n.p.: No on cared a single Goddamn.
1926		J. Tully Jarnegan (1928) 65: I don’t give a good God-damn if it’s a policeman.
1934		H. Miller Tropic of Cancer (1963) 132: You don’t give a goddam.
1943		I. Wolfert Tucker’s People (1944) 65: You won’t be worth a God damn. I’m telling you.
1952		in G. Legman Limerick (1953) 117: For religion I don’t give a goddem!
1961		(con. 1890–1910) ‘Flann O’Brien’ Hard Life (1962) 38: Sure they don’t give a goddam if women were dying like flies in the street.
1963		B. Hecht Gaily, Gaily 43: Those bull heads don’t give a Goddamn if a man is innocent or not.
1965		B. Jackson Get Your Ass in the Water (1974) 46: I said, ‘Bartender, bartender, don’t you know who I am?’ He said, ‘Frankly, my man, I don’t give a goddam.’.

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