whisperer en · NOUN
Etymology
From whisper + -er. The extended senses were popularized by the film The Horse Whisperer (1998).
Meanings
- 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.
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(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
'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):dog whisperer
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 Ltd., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 18: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:hormone whisperer
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| whisperers | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Deriveds
horse whisperer · AI whisperer · dragon whisperer
Translations (17)
nrf chuchoteuse (someone who whispers) · xal шимлдәч (someone who whispers) · hu pusmogó (someone who whispers) · pt murmurador (someone who whispers) · ang rūnere (someone who whispers) · sv viskare (someone who whispers) · hu duruzsoló (someone who whispers) · hu susogó (someone who whispers) · ga cogarnach (someone who whispers) · hu sugdolózó (someone who whispers) · hu suttogó (someone who whispers) · fr chuchoteur (someone who whispers) · fi kuiskaaja (someone who whispers) · hu súgó (someone who whispers) · gd neach-cagarsaich (someone who whispers) · nrf chuchoteux (someone who whispers) · fr chuchoteuse (someone who whispers)