whisperer
noun
whis·per·er
| \ ˈhwi-spər-ər
, ˈwi-\
, ˈwi-\
plural whisperers
Definition of whisperer
2a
: 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
The pitching whisperer is a fixture at the pitching diamonds at Holiday Park. — Emmett Hall, sun-sentinel.com, "Pitching phenom leads 10U club to USSSA All American Games softball title," 22 Aug. 2019 Bolstered by an infamously twisty screenplay and A-list performances from Bruce Willis and Toni Collette, Osment’s performance as 9 -year-old ghost whisperer Cole Sear catapulted the movie to instant box office success. — Christi Carras, Los Angeles Times, "Haley Joel Osment on 20 years of ‘The Sixth Sense’ — and ‘I see dead people’," 6 Aug. 2019 The chill from Washington, as the Brits perceive it, has also unnerved others in Europe who rely on Britain as their Trump whisperer. — Kimberly Dozier / Aspen, Time, "The 'Special' U.S.-U.K. Relationship is Bruised After Trump Officials Left U.K. Out of Iran Strike Planning," 23 July 2019 The challenge with being a star-whisperer is that people who aren’t necessarily destined for stardom start whispering back at you. — Ben Mcgrath, The New Yorker, "The Brooklyn Startup Helping High-School Athletes Go Viral," 30 May 2019 In the days after the game, more than a few of their parents told me that their kids now spoke of me as some kind of baseball whisperer, and my own kids seemed to delight in the whole, yes, spectacle. — Corey Seymour, Vogue, "One Dad’s New Field of (Tiny) Baseball Dreams," 14 June 2019 He is seen as a spiritual leader in the community with an almost supernatural relationship to the animals: a crocodile whisperer. — Matthew Abbott, New York Times, "The Revered Crocodiles of This Island Nation Have Suddenly Started Killing People," 6 June 2019 For cellphone whisperers, families that live near highways, airports or trains, music-loving commuters, and even individual cells, noise is an inescapable fact of life. — Quanta Magazine, "Inside the Din, Cells Fight Noise With Noise," 22 May 2014 Piccioli has already started work on the casting, with help from stylist Joe McKenna, the famed Azzedine Alaïa whisperer who is part of Piccioli’s starry show team along with makeup maven Pat McGrath and hairdresser Guido Palau. — Hamish Bowles, Vogue, "Inside the Private World of Valentino’s Pierpaolo Piccioli," 3 Mar. 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'whisperer.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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