Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. a dismissive excl.; synon. with to hell with...! under hell n.

1718		C. Hitchin Conduct of Receivers and Thief-Takers 18: Blow your House with a witness; your House ought with you and all your Attendants to be blown up together.
1831		‘Gallery of 140 Comicalities’ Bell’s Life in London 24 June 1/2: You aren’t the rigular Dustman, blow ye!
1838		Dickens Oliver Twist (1966) 182: ‘Where’s your spirit? Don’t you take any pride out of yourself?’ [...] ‘Oh, blow that!’ said Master Bates.
1843–44		Dickens Martin Chuzzlewit (1995) 663: ‘Blow Pecksniff!’ cried Mr. Tapley, in the fervour of his eloquence. ‘Who’s he!’.
1849		C. Kingsley Alton Locke (1850) 27: Blow temperance, and blow all Chartists, say I!
1849		Bell’s Life in Sydney 12 May 3/2: ‘Blow the Court,’ said the pair ‘we’ll leave the kids here for you to take care of them’ .
1858		‘A. Pendragon’ Queen of the South 77: Oh, blow that [...] I’m tired of your larks.
1866		Broad Arrow Jack 22: Oh, blow your weakness! dash your helplessness, and jigger your happetite!
1875		M. Thompson Hoosier Mosaics 40: Blow the blasted luck!
1885		Bulletin (Sydney) 13 June 11/1: Blow your ‘little Constance!’ / That! for your report! / P’haps your ‘little Constance’ / Has a little wart.
1894		Truth (Sydney) 21 Jan. 6/6: Likewise little cuss words / Such as ‘blast’ and ‘blow’ / Quite as much as wuss words / Fill the place below.
1899		E.W. Hornung Amateur Cracksman (1992) 88: ‘We would,’ said he, ‘and blow the odds!’.
1908		Gem 17 Oct. 18: Blow your dorg.
1918		C.J. Dennis ‘Cow’ in Backblock Ballads 35: Blow yer beauty! Wot’s the matter with the maiden ’oo kin milk?
1938		J.B. Booth Sporting Times 136: O, blow the command programme.
1947		(con. 1944) J.H. Burns Gallery (1948) 86: Blow all that, the parachute captain said.
1958		J. Osborne Epitaph for George Dillon Act III: Oh, blow that.
1968		A. Buckeridge Jennings in Particular (1988) 36: Phew! Blow that for a lark!
1988		McGill Dict. of Kiwi Sl. 16/1: blow that for a joke! emphatic rejection; ‘blow’ euphemistic curse; eg ‘Me referee that lot? Blow that for a joke!’.
2000		Indep. on Sun. Rev. 19 Mar. 13: Blow anyone else!
2003		McGill Reed Dict. of N.Z. Sl. [as cit. 1988].

2. a euph. for damn! excl.

1819		Patriot 4 Sept. 30: Devil blow me, but you shall sleep in the best feather bed I have.
1828		F.F.Cooper Elbow-Shakers! I ii: He sha’nt marry Sally – blow me!
1833		‘The Turncock’ in Regular Thing, And No Mistake 68: Sam swore he loved, she swore again, / ‘blow her if she’d marry’, / He thought to blow his brains out / straight, and toddle to old Harry.
1833		Hereford Jrnl 19 June 4/6: Jack, [...] employing such strange expletives as ‘blow my eyes’ — ‘now blow my limbs’ — ‘now, blow me tight!’.
1852		G.C. Mundy Our Antipodes II 119: ‘Then blow me but I’ll make you,’ thundered the A.B. seaman.
1877		‘Nothing like Grog’ India-Rubber Face Song Book 2: And, blow me, there’s no thing like grog.
1890		Sporting Times 18 Jan. 1: Oh blow this weather!
1892		E.E. Rogers [perf. Marie Lloyd] G’arn Away 🎵 [B]ut blow my eyes, / When ’e says that whelks are best.
1898		Kipling ‘In Ambush’ in Complete Stalky & Co. (1987) 30: ‘Bother! Likewise blow!’ said McTurk thoughtfully.
1905		H.G. Wells Kipps (1952) 228: ‘Oh, blow!’ he said at last, and then viciously, ‘Blow!’.
1914		E. Pugh Cockney At Home 69: Blow me, Bill, but I never see sech a stick-in-the-mud as you!
1922		E. Raymond Tell England (1965) 28: An hour’s sweat with Radley. Oh, hang! Blow! Damn!