whisperer

noun

whis·​per·​er ˈ(h)wi-spər-ər How to pronounce whisperer (audio)
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

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Once considered the Trump whisperer of Big Tech, Cook has become a more distant figure from the White House in recent months. Shannon Carroll, Quartz, 29 May 2025 Working with Rusty Kuntz There’s no such thing as an outfield whisperer, but the Royals have something close in Rusty Kuntz. Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 28 May 2025 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 See All Example Sentences for whisperer

Word History

First Known Use

1530, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Time Traveler
The first known use of whisperer was in 1530

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“Whisperer.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/whisperer. Accessed 3 Jun. 2025.

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