whisperer
/ˈwɪspərə
/noun
1A person who whispers: he’s a whisperer—you can hardly hear a word he says...
- The rest of the day was like that, boring classes with three types of people, the whisperers, the shy ones, and the friendly ones.
- Stina Nordenstam is the Stockholm whisperer, so quiet and child-like in her singing, and her albums have always been moon-lit affairs with the wolves at the door on a frosty night.
- Loud whisperers from the row behind me hope he is wrong.
1.1A person who spreads gossip or rumours: the whisperers say the committee that appointed him was divided...
- He emerged from the foothills of a botched coup neurotic about the whisperers.
- The Whitehall whisperers were caught out by the deceptive intimacy of e-mail.
- Fragrant whisperers from the third Floor at Nine suggest a coup may by underway for the Today Show.
2 [with modifier] A person skilled in taming or training a specified kind of animal, typically using body language and gentle vocal encouragement rather than physical contact: he’s reportedly set to quit show business to become a horse whisperer...
- Jo is - or at least, is training to be - a horse whisperer.
- A talented horse whisperer, she takes comfort in being around horses.
- Anyone having a problem with their own pooch can consult dog whisperer Steve Fryer, who will be available to share his successful training methods.