What’s With All The Cidiots?

Mat and Nora learning to love the outside

“Cidiots” refers to a city slicker who moves to the country and acclimates through experience. The term is conventionally not a compliment, usually by used by country folk to describe city people who know nothing about rural life, living off the land, or where their food is from.

Grammatically, the term is known as a “portmanteau,” a word blending the sounds and combining the meanings of two others, in this case…