blow me! excl.2
1. euph. variation on damn v. (1) me!
More Mornings in Bow St. 55: I shan’t stir till I’ve got my money, blow me if I do! | ||
‘Of All The Blowings On The Town’ in Flash Chaunter 5: But blow me if I care a d--n. | ||
Ingoldsby Legends (1847) 355: I’ll burn them precious stacks down, blow me! | ‘My Letters’ in||
‘The Rat-Catcher’s Daughter’ in Bryant’s Songs from Dixie’s Land 15: In love I’ll constant prove, and – blow me if I’ll live long arter. | ||
‘The Little Crossing-Sweeper’ in Mr Punch’s Model Music Hall 82: No, blow me if I can do it, for I feel my eyes are all twitching. |
2. (US) a dismissive excl. [late 20C+ blow v.2 (1c)].
8 Ball Chicks (1998) 80: Handwritten replies decorated every available inch: fuck you, blow me. | ||
All Tomorrow’s Parties 226: The still, small voice of mortality. Blow me, Laney tells it. | ||
Star Island (2011) 8: ‘Thanks for nuthin! ‘Blow me’. | ||
Hard Bounce [ebook] ‘Hey!” I yelled at the cop. ‘Step off! Until you introduce yourself, you can blow me with the interrogation’. | ||
Dirtbag, Massachusetts 90: ‘Blow me,’ said the person’ I’ll never forget. |