whisperern.
/ˈwɪsp(ə)rə/, U.S. /ˈ(h)wɪsp(ə)rər/ One who whispers.
1.
a. One who speaks in a whisper.
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the mind > language > speech > manner of speaking > [noun] > whispering > one who whispers
whisperer1567
1567 J. Maplet Greene Forest f. 79v The Crane by proper name should be called whisperer, or flackerer.
1711 R. Steele Spectator No. 148. ⁋4 Next to these Bawlers, is a troublesome Creature who comes with the Air of.. your Intimate, and that is your Whisperer.
1740 S. Richardson Pamela II. 375 As we walked up the Church..we had abundance of Gazers, and Whisperers.
1832 D. Brewster Lett. Nat. Magic ix. 225 Where the whisperer is in the focus of one reflecting surface, and the hearer in the focus of another.
1876 J. Saunders Lion in Path v ‘Hush’, exclaims one of the whisperers to his neighbour.
b. An appellation for certain celebrated horse-breakers, said to have obtained obedience by whispering to the horses.
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping or management of horses > [noun] > keeper or manager > horse-breaking or -training > horse-breaker or -trainer
horse-master?1523
horse-tamer1530
horse-breaker1550
rider1556
pacer1616
hippodame1623
rough-rider1729
whisperer1810
hippodamist1841
horse whisperer1843
horse-gentler1889
horse-trainer1889
buster1891
nagsman1891
1810 H. Townsend Statist. Surv. County Cork 439 He was an awkward, ignorant rustic.., his name James Sullivan, but better known by the appellation of the whisperer,..from a vulgar notion of his being able to communicate to the animal what he wished, by means of a whisper.
1843 G. Borrow Bible in Spain I. xv. 320 One who is an expert whisperer and horse-sorcerer.
2. One who communicates something quietly or secretly; esp. a secret slanderer or tale-bearer.
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society > communication > information > rumour > [noun] > tale-bearer
rounderOE
blabc1374
tale-teller1377
clatterer1388
tittlerc1400
talebearer1478
whisterer1519
whisperer1547
telltale1548
tattler1549
clatterfart1552
tale-carrier1552
babbler?1555
gossip1566
gossiper1568
carry-tale1577
mumble-news1598
twitter1598
buzzer1604
blob-talea1670
gadabout1757
tell-pie1771
circulator1792
clype1825
windjammer1880
tattle-tale1889
panta1908
clatfarta1930
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > hiding, concealing from view > keeping from knowledge > hidden or indirect meaning > [noun] > communicating indirectly > one who communicates indirectly
mustererc1450
whisterer1519
whisperer1547
insinuator1740
earwigger1793
1547 W. Baldwin Treat. Morall Phylos. ii. xi. sig. L.iiv Cast whysperers and tale bearers, oute of thy companye.
1611 Bible (King James) Prov. xvi. 28 A whisperer separateth chiefe friends. View more context for this quotation
1675 W. Temple Let. to Charles II in Wks. (1731) II. 328 The Whisperers of this Story.
1707 R. Nash in O. Goldsmith Life R. Nash (1762) 33 Whisperers of lies and scandal.
1751 S. Johnson Rambler No. 180. ⁋10 The most officious of the whisperers of greatness.
a1821 J. Keats Otho iv. i, in R. M. Milnes Life, Lett. & Lit. Remains Keats (1848) II. 169 Whisperers..Hungry for evidence to ruin me.
1876 W. Besant & J. Rice Golden Butterfly II. v. 77 To be a Great Man's whisperer is a position coveted by many.
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