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Definition: Doormat |
DoormatNoun1. A person who is physically weak and ineffectual. 2. A mat placed outside an exterior door for wiping the shoes before entering. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "doormat" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1903. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Industry | Composed of rigid tufts, usually of coconut-fibre or sisal, simply looped under the warp threads of the ground fabric. Source: European Union. (references) |
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Synonyms: DoormatSynonyms: weakling (n), welcome mat (n), wuss (n). (additional references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | Another Doormat Another Day (1959) | |
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| "Footstep" by Uschi Hering Commentary: "Doormat covered with snow." |
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| Author | Quotation |
Charles Dickens | They are so filthy and bestial that no honest man would admit one into his house for a water-closet doormat. |
Rebecca West | I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| "Doormat" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Doormat" is used about 55 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 55 | 45,713 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "doormat": be everybody's doormat. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
doormat | 107 |
personalized doormat | 11 |
doormat iron | 9 |
cast doormat iron | 8 |
rubber doormat | 7 |
doormat here spin stops | 6 |
coir doormat | 6 |
pineapple doormat | 5 |
doormat outdoor | 5 |
doormat flip flop | 4 |
doormat no spin zone | 4 |
welcome doormat | 3 |
doormat teak | 3 |
wooden doormat | 3 |
away doormat go | 2 |
doormat monogrammed | 2 |
doormat iron wrought | 2 |
coco doormat | 2 |
dachshund doormat | 2 |
humming bird doormat | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "doormat"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | udhëz (aisle, mat), udhë (journey, passage, pathway, road, track, way), këmbësore (footway, running board). (various references) | |
Arabic | ممسحة الأرجل, الاقابل للظلم. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | отрепка (jetsam, rag, scum, sewer rat, wretch, yellow dog), изтривалка за крака. (various references) | |
Czech | rohožka (mat). (various references) | |
Danish | doermaatte (fibre mat). (various references) | |
Dutch | deurmat (fibre mat), vloermat (fibre mat). (various references) | |
Finnish | kynnysmatto (door-mat). (various references) | |
French | tapis-brosse, paillasson d'entrée, paillasson, essuie-pieds, carpette. (various references) | |
German | Velourmatte (fibre mat), prügelknabe (whipping boy), Fussmatte, Fußmatte (mat), fußabtreter (mat), fußabstreifer (footscraper), Buerstenmatte (fibre mat). (various references) | |
Greek | χαλάκι (mat, rug). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מחצלת (mat), מדרסה, שפשפת (washboard). (various references) | |
Hungarian | lábtörlő (mat). (various references) | |
Italian | zerbino (door mat, mat), tappeto-spazzola (fibre mat), stuoino (fibre mat). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 靴拭き , ド＝ブローイ波 (de Broglie wave, Deutschmark, door, door boy, door chain, door check, door girl, door hinge, door lock, door mirror, door operating equipment, door peephole, doorman, doors, door-to-door, door-to-door sales, Germany, intercommunication system, peep hole). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ドアマット , くつふき. (various references) | |
Manx | breshag laagh. (various references) | |
Papago | chemhonakud. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | oormatday.(various references) | |
Portuguese | Capacho (coconut matting, mat, matting, menial). (various references) | |
Romanian | rogojinã (Hassock, mat, matting), ştergãtoare. (various references) | |
Russian | половик (matting). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | prostirač (rug), otirač (mat). (various references) | |
Spanish | estera (coconut matting, mat, matting, rush mat). (various references) | |
Swedish | dörrmatta. (various references) | |
Thai | พรมเช็ดเท้าหน้าประตู. (various references) | |
Turkish | paspas (mat, mop), kendini ezdiren ve şikâyetçi olmayan kimse, kapı paspası. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "doormat": doormats. (additional references) | |
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"Doormat" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: dazomet, dermat, deroualt, Dobrnja, domkat, doompah, doooom, Doorga, doormatt, Doratt, dorma, dormat, Dormia, dormit, doroga, dorsata, durat, ormat. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "doormat" (pronounced dô"rma't) |
| 5 | -ô" r m a' t | format. |
| 3 | -m a' t | diplomat, laundromat. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-m-o-o-r-t" | |
-2 letters: amort, motor, tardo. | |
-3 letters: atom, dart, dato, doat, doom, door, dorm, dram, drat, mart, moat, mood, moor, moot, mora, mort, odor, orad, ordo, rato, road, roam, rood, room, root, rota, roto, taro, toad, toom, tora, toro, trad, tram, trod. | |
-4 letters: ado, arm, art, dam, dom, dor, dot, mad, mar, mat, moa, mod, moo. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-m-o-o-r-t" | |
+1 letter: doormats, moderato. | |
+2 letters: astrodome, dominator, dynamotor, moderator, moderatos, modulator, motorcade. | |
+3 letters: admonitory, astrodomes, dominators, dynamotors, moderation, moderators, modulators, modulatory, motorcaded, motorcades, nondormant, prodromata. | |
+4 letters: bloodstream, catadromous, deformation, demodulator, denominator, dermatology, meteoroidal, moderations, mortarboard, motherboard, motorcading, ostracoderm, outdoorsman, proctodaeum, rodomontade, trichomonad. | |
+5 letters: accommodator, admonitorily, bloodstreams, commemorated, commendatory, condemnatory, deformations, demodulators, demonstrator, denominators, dermatologic, headforemost, immoderation, midafternoon, mitochondria, monodramatic, mortarboards, motherboards, ostracoderms, overdominant, proctodaeums, radiothorium, rhodomontade, rodomontades, spermatozoid, trichomonads. | |
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