whisperer

noun

whis·​per·​er ˈ(h)wi-spər-ər 

plural whisperers

1

: one that whispers

specifically : rumormonger

2

a

: a person who excels at calming or training usually hard-to-manage animals using noncoercive methods based especially on an understanding of the animals' natural instincts

The last event of the day will be the horse whisperer breaking a wild horse and giving his testimony while he does it.

—Dale Carroll

A lion that mauled a young woman to death in South Africa was under the care of a man known as the "lion whisperer" for his close interactions with the predators.

—The Lewiston (Idaho) Morning Tribune

b

: a person who is unusually skilled at calmly guiding, influencing, or managing other people

Colleagues often call Williams the "child whisperer" because he reaches out with a quiet grace to children who need assistance and molds students who need to believe in their own future.

—Annie Martin

c

: a person considered to possess some extraordinary skill or talent in managing or dealing with something specified

Meatballs with spaghetti, meatball sliders, meatballs in a casserole, or just meatballs on the plate with a salad, my boys love them all, going so far as to call me the meatball whisperer.

—Neely Myers

Examples of whisperer in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

And by last year, New Heritage was done with being an enrollment whisperer, too. —Ron Lieber, New York Times, 1 May 2025

On the flip side, Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum has earned accolades for becoming something of a Trump whisperer, deftly responding to his tariff threats and seeing her own popularity rise accordingly. —Alexander Smith, NBC news, 30 Mar. 2025

And at the heart of this fiction stood a character who seemed purpose-built for the moment — a few parts crypto whisperer, a few parts folk hero. —David Segal, New York Times, 28 Mar. 2025

Nick Garcia is like a horse whisperer, but for shotputters. —Eric Sondheimer, Los Angeles Times, 30 Mar. 2025

Word History

First Known Use

1530, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Rhymes for whisperer

• amateur
• connoisseur
• kieselguhr
• monseigneur
• procureur
• retransfer
• saboteur
• silencer
• voyageur
• birr
• blur
• bur