doormat

door +‎ mat

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈdɔːˌmæt/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈdɔɹˌmæt/

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doormat (plural doormats)

1. A coarse mat at the entrance to a house, upon which one wipes one's shoes.

   Wipe your shoes on the doormat before you start plodding around in the house.

2. (figuratively, derogatory) Someone who is overly submissive to others' wishes.

   He's such a doormat, he lets everyone walk all over him.

   • 2022 March 31, Alexis Soloski, “Why the Sudden Urge to Reconsider Famous Women?”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN:

     If you flipped through certain magazines at this time you could be forgiven for thinking that there was no right way to be a woman, only wrong ones — bimbo or frump, slut or prude, shrew or doormat.

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