You know everone uses it. But Do we really know what it is? I sure dont but even im guilty of using this word..
You know.. " She gave me the Hebegebe's! lol.. what is that.. where did it come from?
2007-11-06 02:34:25 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Entertainment & Music ➔ Polls & Surveys
LOL, yeah I use it alot. Usually referring to insects because I cant stand em and they give me the "hebegebes!" I guess it means the "creeps". LOL, I like using words like that, makes me laugh. Another one of my favs is "decrepit".
2007-11-06 04:41:00 · answer #1 · answered by teri is ambience 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
heebie jeebies :::
Meaning
A feeling of anxiety, apprehension or illness.
Origin
The sound of this term seems to hark back to earlier rhyming phrases, like hocus-pocus and mumbo-jumbo, with a touch of the jitters thrown in. The meaning is more like the British term - the screaming habdabs.
Heebie and jeebie don't mean anything as independent words and heebie jeebies was coined at a time and place when there was a spate of new nonsense rhyming pairs, called rhyming reduplications, - the bee's knees, etc., i.e. 1920s USA.
The term is widely attributed to William Morgan "Billy" de Beck. The first citation of it in print is certainly in a 1923 cartoon of his, in the 26th October edition of the New York American:
"You dumb ox - why don't you get that stupid look offa your pan - you gimme the heeby jeebys!"
Heebie jeebies caught on quickly and very soon began appearing in many newspapers and works of literature in the USA and, from 1927 onward, the UK. For example, here's an entry from the Van Nuys News, 6th November 1923, just a few days after de Beck's cartoon was published:
"Bill Alton showed up poorly in center field. The boys seemed to have the heebie jeebies."
The lack of any explanation in either of the above citations seems to imply that the term would have been known to the readership of both publications by the time of printing.
The speed of take-up of heebie jeebies, in a similar way to another coinage that is attributed to de Beck - horse feathers, does suggest an origin in the media rather than street slang, which tends to spread more slowly.
The term became part of the language quickly enough for it to begin appearing in advertisements from 1924 onwards, as in this illustration from the Mexia Daily News, October 1924, in an advert for a cold cure.
2007-11-06 02:39:57 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
The shivers. That creepy feeling!
I'm sure it comes from the vernacular of the same people that created "GOSH" and "GEE WHIZ" LOL
2007-11-06 02:54:43 · answer #3 · answered by D M 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
lol when i hear that word i think about a rash or something with nasty..lol...my old roommate told me when she was on the train, this bum looked at her and said"ewww you got the hebegebes!" LOL...her skin broke out and she had all these bumps on her face. she was so mad!!! Lol
2007-11-06 03:00:28 · answer #4 · answered by ~I'm A Keepa ~ 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I don't use that word. I would say the person made me feel icky.
2007-11-06 07:39:11 · answer #5 · answered by ShrunkenFro™ 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A curable disease! Some fake @ss bull sh*t people decided to make up!
2007-11-06 03:51:01 · answer #6 · answered by Oh, it's like that? 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It means the willies or the ickies!!! LOL
2007-11-06 02:37:49 · answer #7 · answered by Pen2Paper 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I guess it's like the chills!
2007-11-06 02:38:03 · answer #8 · answered by ♥ HeNnEsSy ™ 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
is someone able to tell me what is the right answer for this question?
2016-08-26 05:45:28 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋