英语词汇heebie jeebies的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

heebie jeebies. Cartoonist Billie DeBeck (1890–1942), who invented “hotsy totsy,” “hot mama,” and other slang expres- sions, is credited by Mencken with this coinage, for “a feeling of nervousness, fright, or worry”—the willies or jitters. What he based the rhyming compound on, outside of a sheer joy of sound, is hard to say. One guess is that it is a “reduplicated per- version” of “creepy” or “the creeps.” More likely DeBeck took the expression from the name of a dance called the Heebie- Jeebies popular in the 1920s, a dance that inspired a popular song titled “Heebie Jeebies” (1926). The dance, of American In- dian ancestry, is said “to represent the incantations made by Red Indian witch doctors before a sacrifice.”

词汇	heebie jeebies
词源	heebie jeebies. Cartoonist Billie DeBeck (1890–1942), who invented “hotsy totsy,” “hot mama,” and other slang expres- sions, is credited by Mencken with this coinage, for “a feeling of nervousness, fright, or worry”—the willies or jitters. What he based the rhyming compound on, outside of a sheer joy of sound, is hard to say. One guess is that it is a “reduplicated per- version” of “creepy” or “the creeps.” More likely DeBeck took the expression from the name of a dance called the Heebie- Jeebies popular in the 1920s, a dance that inspired a popular song titled “Heebie Jeebies” (1926). The dance, of American In- dian ancestry, is said “to represent the incantations made by Red Indian witch doctors before a sacrifice.”
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