The act of striping a nerd (social or otherwise) of their status as a nerd, in respects such as appearance, behavior, and in really successful cases, of their nerdish beliefs.
Ger.:denerdification
Ex: "Yeah, we're taking Susie to the market to get some normal clothes. We're attempting to denerdify her."
Ex: "Albert's denerdification process is failing miserably."
Getting transformed from a nerd/geek into a cooler person (skater, cheerleader, jock, etc.)
This dude used to wear the same too short pants and too small
hoodie every day. then all of a sudden, the next school year, he went skater. SO MUCH BETTER LOOKING, he was... DENERDIFIED(de=reversed, nerd=geek,fied=um. something.)
Fogey/fogy /fougi/ sl. (early 18C+, orig. Scot) old-fashioned, stuck-in-the mud.
Person with old fashioned ideas which he is unwilling to change: Come to the disco and stop being such an old fogey!
You think me an old fogeyand an old tory, his thoughtful voice said. I saw three generations since O’Connel’s time. I remember the famine. Do you know that the orange lodges agitated for repeal of the union twenty years before O’Connel did or before the prelates of your communion denounced him as a demagogue? You fenians forget some things. (James Joyce, Ulysses. Penguin Books,1992. p. 38)