doorside

English

Etymology

From door +‎ -side.

Adjective

doorside (not comparable)

1. Beside a door.
   • 2000, Patrick R. Penland, Hosteled Prodigal: Beyond Laundered Morality, page 300:

     Startled by the fury of his own unforeseen vengeance, he groped over to the doorside switch, turned on the light and opened the hallway door.

Noun

doorside (plural doorsides)

1. The area beside a door.
   • 1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide:

     And they who passed would see Alison trupling in her garden, speaking to herself like the ill wife she was, or sitting on a cutty-stool by the doorside, with her eyes on other than mortal sights.