Crossword clues for doormat
doormat
- Welcome place to wipe one's feet?
- Vestibule appurtenance
- Unassertive sort
- Threshold rug
- Submissive sort
- Stepped-all-over type
- Sort who gets walked all over
- Something to wipe your boots on
- Something that may hide a key
- Perennial target of abuse
- Perennial cellar dweller
- Overly unassertive person
- One might say "Welcome"
- One frequently taken advantage of
- One easily taken advantage of
- One easily run over
- Object with "WELCOME" printed on it
- It gets muddied up
- Floor saver
- Entrance rug
- Badly treated but uncomplaining person
- "Welcome" purchase
- 'Welcome' site
- Habitually humiliated one
- Habitually humiliated person
- Hardly the assertive type
- Punching bag, so to speak
- A person who is physically weak and ineffectual
- A mat placed outside an exterior door for wiping the shoes before entering
- "Welcome" site
- Shoe cleaner
- Bottom-of-the-league perennial
- Unprotesting sufferer
- Cross about mother taking time to find shoe cleaner
- Shoe wiper
- Welcome item
- Welcoming sign
- Welcome site
- Welcome indicator
- Habitually humiliated human
- Welcome rug
- Unassertive type
- Humble pie eater
- Easily beatable opponent
- Wipe one’s feet on this
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
doormat \doormat\ n.
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a mat placed outside and exterior door for wiping the shoes before entering. [WordNet sense 2]
Syn: welcome mat.
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(figurative) A person who is habitually abused, taken advantage of or humiliated; sometimes, one who is physically weak; as, they used him for a doormat. [WordNet sense 1]
Syn: weakling.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. 1 A coarse mat at the entrance to a house, upon which one wipes one's shoes. 2 (context figuratively English) Someone who is overly submissive to others' wishes.
WordNet
n. a person who is physically weak and ineffectual [syn: weakling, wuss]
a mat placed outside an exterior door for wiping the shoes before entering [syn: welcome mat]
Wikipedia
Doormat may refer to:
- A No Doubt song
- Mat
Usage examples of "doormat".
So now these footcloths, these doormats, all four of them ours, are parted.
The way Seria saw it-the obedients these men claimed were not exactly doormats.
A repeat of three bleeps conjured her standing on the doormat outside, ready with some excuse, bearing gifts and smiles.
Pots still on cold ashes, doormats rotting in doorways, tools lying beside half-finished jobs.
Leaving his newspaper to confide its black tidings to the fag ends in the wastepaper basket and his mail to gather what dust it wished upon the doormat, Neville the part-time barman flip-flopped away up the Swans twenty-six stairs to his cornflakes and a cup of the blackest of all black coffees.
The Tri-State Association wasn't a top league, but the Des Moines Hawks were one of the two or three best teams—and they were playing Keokuk, a doormat, tonight.
He hit box 5841-check under his doormat, grab the key, check his mail slot.
But to Madeline Sime remained the doormat: good for filling an evening on short notice, and for pumping up her ego when it lost pressure.
He orders the food he needs each day by means of a note left under the doormat, and the concierge takes the food up and leaves it outside his door.