heebie-jeebiesn.

1923 W. De Beck in N.Y. American 26 Oct. 9/3 You dumb ox—why don't you get that stupid look offa your pan—you gimme the heeby jeebys!

1923 W. De Beck in N.Y. American 10 Nov. 10/1 31,000 shares! Worthless stock of ‘the Belgian Hair Tonic Company’ wiped out! Every cent I had in the world... It gives me the heebie jeebies.

1924 H. C. Witwer in Cosmopolitan Oct. 114/2 That discovery gave my new found friend the hibby jibbys.

1926 G. H. Maines & B. Grant Wise-crack Dict. 9/2 Heebie-jeebies, alcoholic shimmy.

1926 Bulletin 13 Dec. 5/5 The latest dance, the ‘Heebie-Jeebies’ is said to represent the incantations made by Red Indian witch doctors before a human sacrifice.

1927 Punch 2 Feb. 116/1 It is interesting to observe that in spite of artificial sunlight, television, winter sports and the heebie-jeebie there are still some stalwarts who stand by the old traditional amusements of the English people.

1927 Weekly Disp. 1 May 8 The Heebie Jeebies is rich in haunch movements.

1927 Weekly Disp. 3 May 3/7 A terrible girl in the next gallery, painted in the fearsome and fashionable ‘pink and putty’ manner, had given him what an American present might have called the ‘heeby-jeebies’.

1927 Weekly Disp. 17 Aug. 3/2 Does this work never give you the heeby-jeebies? Does it never depress you?

1929 R. C. Andrews Ends of Earth 89 I thought I had the ‘hebe-jibies’ and stepped up very gingerly.

1934 R. Nichols Fisbo 37 It would have given the downright heebee-jeebee To even the dullest of the dull amœbæ.

1959 J. Fleming Miss Bones viii. 94 You've given me the heeby jeebies... It'll be the end of me.

1971 R. Dentry Encounter at Kharmel iii. 57 That little creep..gives me the screaming heebies.

1972 P. G. Wodehouse Pearls, Girls, & Monty Bodkin ix. 138 He was suffering from an ailment known to the medical profession as the heeby-jeebies, and anything having the appearance of a hitch in the programme might lead to a total collapse.