Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who whispers, or speaks in a low, soft, rustling voice, or under the breath.
- noun One who tells secrets, or makes secret and mischievous communications; a talebearer; an informer.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who whispers.
- noun A tattler; one who tells secrets; a conveyer of intelligence secretly; hence; a backbiter; one who slanders secretly.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Someone who
whispers . - noun Someone who tells
secrets ; agossip .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun one who speaks in a whisper
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Examples
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Your suggestion of becomng a monkey whisperer is truly inspiring and a lot more practical than I could have ever imagined.
Dear Slimbolala: Softly, Softly, Catchy Monkey Slimbolala 2006
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"Yet wait, wait, wait," implored another whisperer from the Earth.
Parables From Nature 1857
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Be not called a whisperer, and be not taken in thy tongue, and confounded.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete The Challoner Revision Anonymous
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Be not called a whisperer, and be not taken in thy tongue, and confounded.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 26: Ecclesiasticus The Challoner Revision
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Be not called a whisperer, and be not taken in thy tongue, and confounded.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete Anonymous
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Be not called a whisperer, and be not taken in thy tongue, and confounded.
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"That can you not, my Lord, for the whisperer will be a woman."
The Strong Arm Robert Barr 1881
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This week brings the publication of a book next to which Truss seems a mild-mannered word whisperer.
The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed WARREN CLEMENTS 2011
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His son used to boast how his reverence met his sire as they both rode towards Mallow, and charged him with being a confederate of the wicked one, and how the "whisperer" laid the priest's horse under a spell, and forthwith led him a weary chase among the cross roads, till he promised in despair to let Sullivan alone for ever.
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5: 16, "Be not called a tale-bearer [Douay: 'whisperer']" says: "i.e. a backbiter."
Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province Aquinas Thomas
bilby commented on the word whisperer
Don't see the modern usage of whisperer - a person with a special ability to communicate with or cajole (animals/other beings) - in any of the definitions here.
November 30, 2012