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Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Slang A feeling of uneasiness or nervousness; the jitters.
Wiktionary
- n. A general feeling of anxiety, fear, uneasiness, or nausea.
WordNet 3.0
- n. extreme nervousness
Etymologies
- Coined by William De Beck (1890-1942), American cartoonist, in his comic strip Barney Google.
Examples
“And, that Kiran always looks like he's giving her the heebie-jeebies.”
“Kind of the same way that Bryan Adams 'song "Have You Ever - Really - Loved a Woman" gives me the heebie-jeebies.”
“All those Fruedian-slips showing is enough to give ya the heebie-jeebies when you start to write some thing.”
“Yes | No | Report from teufelhunden wrote 51 weeks 4 days ago cottonmouth, they still give me the heebie-jeebies.”
“And yes teufelhunden those cottonmouths always gave me the heebie-jeebies as well.”
“Her kiss with that hot guy gave me the heebie-jeebies.”
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“And even though I'm currently writing my twelfth novel, the jitters and the heebie-jeebies and head-banging ohmygod/whatwasithinking/i'moutofmyfreakingmind mantra still runs through my brain.”
“Nothing beats "the heebie-jeebies you get underwater, in the dark, with this little sea monster biting you," he says.”
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“This is the sort of thing that would be giving Microsoft the heebie-jeebies.”
The Guardian: CES 2011: Motorola shows off smartphones and 'Honeycomb' tablet
“It usually only gives me the heebie-jeebies when I'm down there by myself, and it's time turn out the lights and head upstairs.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘heebie-jeebies’.
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old timey talk
Words or Sayings from the 1920's or whatever that no one really uses anymore (at least in that context).
scram, bearcat, heavens to betsy, dick, double-cross, ducky, gams, goofy, hooch, jalopy, john, joe and 174 more...
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Reduples
Go for it, brothers and sisters! I personally have been suffering long for lack of an open reduplicatives list
happy clappy, bribble-brabble, diddle-daddle, hugger-mugger, kikiriki, Bora-Bora, mahi-mahi, jingle-jangle, knick-knack paddy..., chit-chat, bon-bon, clapperclaw and 286 more...
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ghost
This is Ghost List 2 ( the kind that go 'boo!' ) :P
phantom, spectral, specter, spectre, spooky, poltergeist, haunt, spirit, banshee, cryptic, shadow, phantasm and 294 more...
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words i enjoy
wiggly-waggley, higgledy-piggledy, artsy-fartsy, clip-clop, fancy-shmancy, handy-andy, hanky-panky, heebie-jeebies, hoity-toity, hoochy koochy, hurdy-gurdy, bee's knees and 10 more...
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The Storybook Words
Words from children's literature that feed young imaginations and spark a love of words and language.
peril, sparkle, fizzle, kerfuffle, lachrymose, heebie-jeebies, turtleneck, peacoat, smarmy, daffodil, snapdragon, grouch and 1 more...
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