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

But there was no big redesign required for Toothless, the mysterious and elusive Night Fury, who bonds with Hiccup (Mason Thames), the reluctant Viking dragon whisperer. —Bill Desowitz, IndieWire, 13 June 2025

Burns, the administration’s de facto Putin whisperer, had heard it all before and understood that the Russian leader’s paranoid obsession with Ukraine was real and unshakable. —Shane Harris, The Atlantic, 17 Jan. 2025

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

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