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Dorky vs Dorkify - What's the difference?

dorky | dorkify |

As an adjective dorky

is like a dork, or having a dork's characteristics.

As a verb dorkify is

(slang|transitive) to make dorky.

dorky

English

Adjective

(er)
  • Like a dork, or having a dork's characteristics.
  • * 1962 , Alain Robbe-Grillet, Last year at Marienbad page 167:
    • I entitled the piece "Dorky ", dork being slang for a person who does not belong to popular groups, usually an outsider, an odd person, sometimes inept, other times cranky.
  • * 1998 , Dana Redfield, Lucy Blue and the Daughters of Light ISBN 9781571741073
    • Anyway this dorky guy asks Sallyfrass to dance and she kind of likes him...

    dorkify

    English

    Verb

  • (slang) To make dorky.
  • * 2004 , Hampton Sides, Americana: dispatches from the new frontier (page 16)
    • If they think about him at all, they're inclined to blame him for commodifying, and therefore dorkifying , their pure underground pursuit.
  • * 2009 , Micol Ostow, David Ostow, So Punk Rock: And Other Ways to Disappoint Your Mother (page 97)
    • It's amazing—what he lacks in finesse he makes up for in sheer willingness to dorkify himself.