doormat

See also: door-mat

English

Etymology

From door +‎ mat.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈdɔːˌmæt/

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• (US, Canada) IPA^(key): /ˈdɔɹˌmæt/

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• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /ˈdoːˌmæt/

Noun

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.

   • 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.

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^[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

• bootlicker, simp

Translations

coarse mat that appears at the entrance to a house

• Belarusian: дыванок m (dyvanók), каберац m (kabjerac), палавік m (palavik)
• Bengali: পাপোষ (papōś)
• Bulgarian: изтривалка (bg) f (iztrivalka)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 門墊／门垫 (zh) (méndiàn), 門口地墊／门口地垫 (ménkǒu dìdiàn), 擦腳墊／擦脚垫 (cājiǎodiàn)

• Czech: rohožka (cs) f
• Danish: dørmåtte (da) c
• Dutch: deurmat (nl) m or f
• Esperanto: mato (eo)
• Faroese: duramotta f
• Finnish: ovimatto (fi), kynnysmatto (fi)
• French: paillasson (fr) m, essuie-pieds (fr) m
• German: Fußmatte (de) f, Fußabstreifer (de) m, Fußabtreter (de) m
• Greek: πατάκι (el) n (patáki)
• Gujarati: પગલૂછણિયું n (paglūchṇiyũ)
• Hebrew: אסקופה נדרסת, אסקופה נדרסת f
• Hindi: पांवड़ा m (pāmvṛā)
• Hungarian: lábtörlő (hu)
• Ido: tapiseto (io)
• Italian: zerbino (it) m, stuoino m, nettapiedi m, stoino m
• Japanese: ドアマット (doamatto), 靴拭き (くつふき, kutsufuki), マット (ja) (matto)
• Macedonian: подметка f (podmetka), бришалка f (brišalka)
• Malayalam: ചവുട്ടി (cavuṭṭi)
• Marathi: पायपुसणे n (pāypusṇe)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: dørmatte m or f

  Nynorsk: dørmatte f

• Polish: wycieraczka (pl) f
• Portuguese: capacho (pt) m
• Romanian: preș (ro) n
• Russian: полови́к (ru) m (polovík) (для вытира́ния о́буви), ко́врик (ru) m (kóvrik), цино́вка (ru) f (cinóvka) (esp. made of straw)
• Spanish: felpudo (es) m
• Swedish: dörrmatta (sv) c
• Tagalog: kuskusan ng paa
• Turkish: paspas (tr)

someone that is over-submissive to other's wishes

• Danish: dørmåtte (da) c
• Dutch: voetveeg (nl) m or f, buklaaf
• Finnish: kynnysmatto (fi)
• French: carpette (fr) f, paillasson (fr) m
• German: Fußabtreter (de) m
• Hebrew: אַסְקֻפָּה נִדְרֶסֶת (he) f (asqupá nidréset)
• Hungarian: papucs (hu), lábtörlő (hu)
• Italian: zerbino (it) m
• Korean: 호구 (ko) (hogu)
• Macedonian: мивка f (mivka)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: dørmatte m or f

  Nynorsk: dørmatte f

• Polish: pantofel (pl) m
• Portuguese: capacho (pt) m
• Russian: тря́пка (ru) m (trjápka), терпила (ru) f (terpila)
• Swedish: dörrmatta (sv) c

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• Hebrew: ^{(please verify)} שפשפת (shafshefet)