doormat
See also: door-mat
English
editEtymology
editPronunciation
edit- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈdɔːˌmæt/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
- (US, Canada) IPA(key): /ˈdɔɹˌmæt/
- (General Australian) IPA(key): /ˈdoːˌmæt/
Noun
editdoormat (plural doormats)
- 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.
- 2022, Candice Carty-Williams, People Person, Trapeze, pages 257–258:
- Dimple glanced at an expensive-looking doormat with the words ‘LOSE THE SHOES’ woven into it and wondered why anyone would bother spending so much money on something people were going to wipe their feet on.
- (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[1], →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.
Synonyms
editTranslations
editcoarse mat that appears at the entrance to a house
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someone that is over-submissive to other's wishes
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