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whisperer

whisperer noun: someone who whispers.

Noun

whisperer (plural whisperers)

  1. Someone who whispers.
  2. Someone who tells secrets; a gossip.
  3. Someone who is skilled in taming or training a certain kind of animal, using gentle vocal commands and body language as opposed to physical contact. See horse whisperer.
  4. (broadly, figuratively) Someone who has an uncanny ability to control or manipulate a certain thing or person; an expert or guru in a particular field or subject
    • dog whisperer
    • hormone whisperer

Examples of whisperer in a sentence

  • So I've been dispatched to be the Steve whisperer.2015, Aaron Sorkin, Walter Isaacson, Steve Jobs, spoken by John Sculley (Jeff Daniels):
  • Among my coworkers, I'd been developing a reputation as a boss-whisperer, in part due to the success of my unusual negotiation strategy, and as of that week, the unexpected success of the billboard.2020, Emily Segal, Mercury Retrograde, New York: Deluge Books, →ISBN:
  • These include Steve Davies, The Boring Company CEO, and Omead Afshar, who once led Tesla's Gigafactory in Austin and is nicknamed “the Elon whisperer”.2023 September 30, Hannah Murphy, “The wildest job in Silicon Valley”, in FT Weekend (Life & Arts section), London: The Financial Times...

Forms of whisperer

pluralwhisperers

Plural of whisperer: whisperers

Origin of whisperer

From whisper + -er. The extended senses were popularized by the film The Horse Whisperer (1998).

Words formed from whisperer

Questions about whisperer

What does whisperer mean?
Whisperer means someone who whispers.
How do you use whisperer in a sentence?
So I've been dispatched to be the Steve whisperer.
What part of speech is whisperer?
Whisperer is a noun.
What is the plural of whisperer?
The plural of whisperer is whisperers.

Words near whisperer in the dictionary

  1. whisperation
  2. whisperations
  3. whispered
  4. whispered interpretation
  5. whispered interpreting
  6. whisperer
  7. whisperers
  8. whisperest
  9. whispereth
  10. whisperhood
  11. whisperin'

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