I was speaking to someone the other day and said: "Wow! That gave me the heebie-jeebies!" That person said that I shouldn't use that word as it is anti-semitic and is a slur referencing "Hebrews" and "Jews".
So I looked it up and found out it originated in a 1923 cartoon. Here is the cartoon and a short audio clip on it origins.
So it is NOT anti-semitic. Go ahead and use the expression, and if someone says not to use the word, educate them, LOL.
And here is the link to the audio.
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