pushover
Someone who is easily swayed or influenced to change their mind or comply.
Noun
- 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.
- “His [Helmut Newton's] women are strong and powerful, definitely not pushovers,” he says. - 2024 May 4, Melanie Gerlies, quoting Simon de Pury, “New claimant to €35 mn Klimt emerges”, in FT Weekend (Life & Arts...
- 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.
- Something that is easy to do or accomplish; an easy task.
Origin
A deverbal from push over. First use appears c. 1891 in the Galveston Daily News.