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Green’s Dictionary of Slang

stubble it! excl.

also stubble! stubble the gab! stubble your red rag!

[SE stubble, to clear the land of stubble, to cut it short; gab n.¹/red rag n. (1)]

(UK Und.) hold your tongue! be quiet!

c.1698		B.E. Dict. Canting Crew n.p.: Stubble it c. hold your Tongue.
1725		New Canting Dict. [as cit. c.1698].
1737, 1759, 1760, 1776		Bailey Universal Etym. Eng. Dict. [as cit. c.1698].
c.1750–1882		B.M. Carew Life and Adventures.
1785, 1788, 1796		Grose Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue.
1809		G. Andrewes Dict. Sl. and Cant.
1811		Lex. Balatronicum.
1823		Egan Grose’s Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue.
1828		Lytton Pelham III 292: Stubble it, you ben, you deserve to cly the jerk for your patter.
1859		‘Scene in a London Flash-Panny’ Matsell Vocabulum 99: ‘Stubble your red rag,’ answered a good-looking young fellow.
1881		Trumble ‘On the Trail’ in Sl. Dict. (1890) 43: [as cit. 1859].
1906		A.H. Lewis Confessions of a Detective 203: ‘Stubble the gab!’ whispered the brute-faced creature who sat across-table from the garrulous yeggman; ‘stubble, and ware the bull!’.