pushover

A deverbal from push over. First use appears c. 1891 in the Galveston Daily News.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpʊʃəʊvə(ɹ)/

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pushover (plural pushovers)

1. Someone who is easily swayed or influenced to change their mind or comply.

   I'm a pushover when it comes to buying new kitchen gadgets.

   • 2024 May 4, Melanie Gerlies, quoting Simon de Pury, “New claimant to €35 mn Klimt emerges”, in FT Weekend (Life & Arts section), London: The Financial Times Ltd., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 18:

     “His [Helmut Newton's] women are strong and powerful, definitely not pushovers,” he says.

2. Someone who is easy to push around and to take advantage of; someone who lets themselves be picked on or bullied without defending or standing up for themselves.
3. Something that is easy to do or accomplish; an easy task.

• (someone who is easily swayed or influenced): little girl, mollusc, nose of wax
• (someone who lets themselves be picked on or bullied): nestle-cock, softy, wuss; see also Thesaurus:milksop

• pushoverness

• cave
• cave in
• give in
• pullover
• turn the other cheek
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• overpush