doormat

Plural: doormats

Noun

• A mat placed at an entrance for cleaning shoes.
• a person who is physically weak and ineffectual
• a mat placed outside an exterior door for wiping the shoes before entering
• A coarse mat at the entrance to a house, upon which one wipes one's shoes.
• Someone who is overly submissive to others' wishes.

Examples

• He refused to be a doormat in Words With Friends, always challenging dubious plays.
• He's such a doormat, he lets everyone walk all over him.
• Wipe your shoes on the doormat before you start plodding around in the house.

Synonyms

weakling, welcome mat, wuss, bootlicker, simp