Meanings
plural whisperers
- Someone who whispers.
- Someone who tells secrets; a gossip.
- 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.
- broadlyfigurativelySomeone 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
4 more examples
hormone whisperer
'Cause I hear you've been worse than usual this morning and I didn't think that was possible. 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, →ISBNThese 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 Ltd., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 18
Origin
From whisper + -er. The extended senses were popularized by the film The Horse Whisperer (1998).
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Finnish kuiskaaja
- kuiskaajasomeone who whispers
French chuchoteur, chuchoteuse
- chuchoteursomeone who whispers
- chuchoteusesomeone who whispers
Hungarian súgó, suttogó
- súgósomeone who whispers
- suttogósomeone who whispers
- sugdolózósomeone who whispers
- pusmogósomeone who whispers
- duruzsolósomeone who whispers
- susogósomeone who whispers
Irish cogarnach
- cogarnachsomeone who whispers
Portuguese murmurador
- murmuradorsomeone who whispers
Scottish Gaelic neach-cagarsaich
- neach-cagarsaichsomeone who whispers
Swedish viskare
- viskaresomeone who whispers
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whisperer. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/whisperer
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