Green’s Dictionary of Slang

to not care at all.

1562		Jacke Juggler Biiii: But for thy displeasure I care not a farte.
1593		Passionate Morrice (1876) 62: We care not a fart for his honestie.
1619		Two Wise Men and All the Rest Fooles V iv: Ile not give a fart for a monie-monger that shall lose a minute negligently .
1654		Witts Recreations ‘Fancies & Fantasticks’ No. 113: What I have said, take in good part, / If not, I doe not care a fart.
1659		‘The Re-resurrection of the Rump’ in Wardroper (1969) 154: For all you can do I care not a fart / Which nobody can deny.
1664		C. Cotton Virgil Travestie (1765) Bk I 26: What could Æneas do to thee? Who car’st a Fart for no-body.
1672		‘On a Fart’ in Ebsworth Westminster Drolleries (1875) ii 129: [as cit. 1654].
1680		Crackfart & Tony 30: Come Sir, we care not a Fart for you, nor your Similes.
1688		T. Shadwell Squire of Alsatia II i: Nor would I give a fart for any Mathematician.
1700		T. Brown Amusements Serious and Comical in Works (1744) III 143: I care not a fart for my Lord M—r.
1719		in D’Urfey Pills to Purge Melancholy V 73: Good Mrs. Tart, I caren’t a Fart.
1733		Laugh and Be Fat 117: I do not give a Fart for your Punch without Nantz.
1750		Friar and Boy Pt I 24: Young Jack he did not care a fart, For any of the crew.
1762		Bridges Homer Travestie (1764) I 191: Tho’ if the gods will take my part; / For Jove I shall not care a f—t.
1772		Bridges Burlesque Homer (3rd edn) 21: I care a fart for none but you.
1797		Bridges Burlesque Homer (4th edn) I 176: Mycenae, Argos, aye, and Sparta, / Destroy them all, care I a fart-a?
1815		T. Whittell ‘Alnwick Election’s Wedding’ Poetical Works 117: But hang it Sacheveral / Cares not a f--t for’t.
1888–94		‘Walter’ My Secret Life (1966) VI 1160: Go to hell and buggery, go and shit yourself, I don’t care a bloody fart where you go to.
1927		in Randolph & Legman Ozark Folksongs and Folklore (1992) II 671: It don’t make no difference – he don’t care a fart.
1953		J. Thompson Criminal (1993) 92: I don’t give a fast-day fart for what he said.
1961		(con. early 1950s) J. Peacock Valhalla 17: I don’t give two farts in hell for no what’s-his-name Charley Escobar.
1962		H. Livings Nil Carborundum (1963) Act II: I don’t give a tuppenny fart for your soldiering, your stirring [...] and your bull.
1966		(con. 1954) J. McGrath Events While Guarding the Bofors Gun II ii: I said do me no favours [...] report away. I couldn’t give a monkey’s fart.
1966		R. Stone Hall of Mirrors (1987) 56: Nobody here gives a cold fart what you can’t stand, Harold.
1974		(con. 1940s) E. Thompson Tattoo (1977) 99: I don’t give a good fart what you do!
1974		C. Loken Come Monday Morning 135: I don’t give a fart in a whirlwind about football.
1974		G.F. Newman You Flash Bastard 174: So he bends a few and earns a few, so what? Who gives a fartful?
1991		J. Osborne Déjàvu Act I: I don’t give a fart for Venezuela.
2000		Guardian Rev. 20 May 2: I wouldn’t give the fart of a wren on a holly-leaf.
2017		T. Spicer Good Girl Stripped Bare 82: I couldn’t give a flying fart about [...] a film by Russell Crowe.