"whisperer" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Forms: whisperers [plural]
Etymology: From whisper + -er. The extended senses were popularized by the film The Horse Whisperer (1998). Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|whisper|er}} whisper + -er Head templates: {{en-noun}} whisperer (plural whisperers)
  1. Someone who whispers. Categories (topical): People Translations (someone who whispers): chuchoteur [masculine] (French), chuchoteuse [feminine] (French), súgó (note: chiefly present participles only, not lexicalized as nouns) (Hungarian), suttogó (Hungarian), sugdolózó (Hungarian), pusmogó (Hungarian), duruzsoló (Hungarian), susogó (Hungarian), cogarnach [masculine] (Irish), chuchoteux [masculine] (Norman), chuchoteuse [feminine] (Norman), rūnere [masculine] (Old English), murmurador (Portuguese), neach-cagarsaich [masculine] (Scottish Gaelic)
    Sense id: en-whisperer-en-noun-oTe-1rKZ Disambiguation of People: 22 19 28 32 Disambiguation of 'someone who whispers': 72 10 9 10
  2. Someone who tells secrets; a gossip. Categories (topical): People
    Sense id: en-whisperer-en-noun-gRwsVPYM Disambiguation of People: 22 19 28 32
  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. Categories (topical): People
    Sense id: en-whisperer-en-noun-mF3cm27k Disambiguation of People: 22 19 28 32 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with language name categories using raw markup, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English terms suffixed with -er Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 5 4 63 28 Disambiguation of English entries with language name categories using raw markup: 4 3 68 26 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 5 5 47 43 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -er: 13 11 57 19
  4. (figurative, by extension) 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 Tags: broadly, figuratively Categories (topical): People
    Sense id: en-whisperer-en-noun-9sePYmsk Disambiguation of People: 22 19 28 32 Categories (other): English terms with collocations, English entries with topic categories using raw markup Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 5 5 47 43
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: AI whisperer, dragon whisperer, horse whisperer

Inflected forms

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