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doormat

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See also:door-mat

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Etymology

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Fromdoor +‎mat.

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Noun

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doormat (pluraldoormats)

  1. A coarsemat 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, pages257–258:
      Dimple glanced at an expensive-lookingdoormat 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.
  2. (figuratively, derogatory) Someone who is overlysubmissive to others' wishes.
    He's such adoormat, he lets everyone walk all over him.
    • 2022 March 31, Alexis Soloski, “Why the Sudden Urge to Reconsider Famous Women?”, inThe 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 ordoormat.

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coarse mat that appears at the entrance to a house
someone that is over-submissive to other's wishes
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