Synonyms for doormat
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : dawr-mat, dohr- |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈdɔrˌmæt, ˈdoʊr- |
Top 10 synonyms for doormat
- another's action boob
- apple polisher
- apple-polisher
- assenter
- brownnose
- brownnoser
- butler
- camp follower
- chump
- cinch
- dependent
- doily
- domestic
- doormat
- doter
- drudge
- dupe
- easy mark
- easy pickings
- easy touch
- factotum
- fan
- fawner
- flatterer
- floor covering
- flunkey
- flunky
- follower
- fool
- goat
- groupie
- groveler
- gull
- handshaker
- hanger-on
- jay
- kiss-up
- kowtower
- lackey
- mark
- minion
- mug
- parasite
- patsy
- pawn
- pigeon
- place setting
- politician
- prize sap
- puppet
- pushover
- retainer
- sacrifice
- sap
- scapegoat
- schmuck
- sheep
- slave
- soft touch
- steward
- stooge
- subordinate
- sucker
- sycophant
- table mat
- table runner
- teacher's pet
- toady
- trusting soul
- underling
- valet
- victim
- weakling
- yes-man/woman
- yes-person
Définition of doormat
Origin :- 1660s, from door + mat. Figurative use from 1861.
- As in lackey : noun servant
- As in minion : noun sycophant
- As in patsy : noun fall guy
- As in scapegoat : noun person who takes blame for
- As in sycophant : noun person who caters to another
- As in toady : noun sycophant
- As in yes-person : noun sycophant
- As in easy mark : noun easy victim
- As in mat : noun covering
- As in yes man : noun someone following orders without question
- Mr. Darco darted and shook her as if she had been a doormat.
- Extract from : « Despair's Last Journey » by David Christie Murray
- "If you're looking for a doormat to wipe your feet on, I'll send for Tony," he jeered.
- Extract from : « Oh, You Tex! » by William Macleod Raine
- Any man that wears clothes like a doormat will let you make a doormat of him!
- Extract from : « Skinner's Dress Suit » by Henry Irving Dodge
- If you want to know, she's got a right to make a doormat of me.
- Extract from : « A Texas Ranger » by William MacLeod Raine
- A sweet child with ted pigtails was playing with shells on the doormat.
- Extract from : « Burgundy: The Splendid Duchy » by Percy Allen
- Some of the islands were a mile in area, some no bigger than a doormat.
- Extract from : « Up the Mazaruni for Diamonds » by William La Varre
- She knelt down on her own doormat, and we exchanged loving greetings.
- Extract from : « Memoirs of a Midget » by Walter de la Mare
- "Dead as a doormat," announced her brother, after a hasty examination.
- Extract from : « The Rover Boys in the Land of Luck » by Edward Stratemeyer
- This particular specimen, when I saw him, looked more like part of a doormat.
- Extract from : « Idle Ideas in 1905 » by Jerome K. Jerome
- He is not quite content, however, to be simply the doormat of American civilization.
- Extract from : « Your Negro Neighbor » by Benjamin Brawley
Antonyms for doormat
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