doormat

noun

Etymology: From door + mat.

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.”

   “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."”

2. 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.”