Heebie

English

Noun

Heebie (plural Heebies)

1. (slang, US, derogatory, ethnic slur) Alternative form of Hebe (“a Jew”)
   • 2004, Philo Bregstein, Johanna Katherina Barends, Remembering Jewish Amsterdam, page 224:

     The man said, “I'll take one of them Heebies, not two.” So, I went back with them.

   • 2014, Crissy Shreve, BMom: Lovely Weeds, page 166:

     We'd see the boys outside in their yarmulkes, and we'd laugh and call them the “little Heebies.” One time an older Jewish woman came along with us to lunch. Chris didn't know she was Jewish, and started in on the “Heebies,” […]

See also

• heebie-jeebies