"rustle someone's jimmies" meaning in English

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Verb

Audio: En-au-rustle someone's jimmies.ogg Forms: rustles someone's jimmies [present, singular, third-person], rustling someone's jimmies [participle, present], rustled someone's jimmies [participle, past], rustled someone's jimmies [past]
Etymology: First attested in 2009 (see Citations:rustle someone's jimmies). Head templates: {{en-verb|*|head=rustle someone's jimmies}} rustle someone's jimmies (third-person singular simple present rustles someone's jimmies, present participle rustling someone's jimmies, simple past and past participle rustled someone's jimmies)
  1. (Internet slang) To bother someone; to make someone feel upset. Tags: Internet Synonyms: rustle someone's jim-jams, ruffle some feathers
    Sense id: en-rustle_someone's_jimmies-en-verb-k9Q7dZxu Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 49 51 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 50 50 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 47 53
  2. (Internet slang) To interest or excite sexually or romantically. Tags: Internet Categories (topical): Internet memes
    Sense id: en-rustle_someone's_jimmies-en-verb-NPV97VTD Disambiguation of Internet memes: 41 59 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 49 51 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 50 50 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 47 53

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "2012 August 30, Shelby Chiasson, “Editor expresses distastes at religious intolerance”, in The Johnsonian, Winthrop University, Rock Hill, SC, page 6:",
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          "text": "And what, I'm sure you're asking, rustles the jimmies of a highly discerning [turtle] bachelor such as myself? I'm looking for a delectable woman who is interested in long, painfully slow walks on the beach, being dazzled by my utterly stunning shell, and mercilessly abandoning any children of our union to be devoured by birds while they desperately try to scramble from land to the water immediately after hatching.",
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