doormat

Etymology

door + mat

noun

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.
   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. 2022, Candice Carty-Williams, People Person, Trapeze, pages 257–258
2. (figurative, derogatory) Someone who is overly submissive to others' wishes.
   He's such a doormat, he lets everyone walk all over him.
   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. 2022-03-31, Alexis Soloski, “Why the Sudden Urge to Reconsider Famous Women?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN