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発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /ˈdɔːˌmæt/
• (米国発音, Canada) IPA: /ˈdɔɹˌmæt/
• (General Australian) IPA: /ˈdoːˌmæt/

名詞

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.

   • 1942 September and October, “Notes and News: The Stanmore Branch”, in Railway Magazine, page 311:

     Mr. Simpson adds that the station at Stanmore appears practically unchanged from the time of its opening, even to the L.N.W.R. rubber doormat, which "shows no signs of wearing out."

   • 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, →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.

同意語

• bootlicker, simp