Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun See windigo.

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  • noun Alternative spelling of windigo.

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Examples

  • Rabies used to be described as a wendigo spirit (because you die of dehydration.)

    Captain America Found in The Incredible Hulk Deleted Scene | /Film 2008

  • Blomquist says the aboriginals in the area thought Thompson could turn people into the evil cannibalistic entity known as a wendigo and avoided him.

    CBC | Top Stories News 2011

  • Sorry about that, I promise I'll try to return to my usual bits such as wendigo summoning using tanbura sampler with vocoder, and ranting about Hilbert space, shortly.

    dry, dry is nice: I'm becoming hydrophobic badger 2006

  • Maybe I can find an erotic take on the wendigo myth for a piece of my own.

    Postcards from Europa (Pt. 3) greygirlbeast 2009

  • The wendigo ep, doesn't that just take you back to think about it?

    Supernatural: Two Minutes to Midnight - Pink Raygun.com 2010

  • A few pages before the end of my stack, I saw the first reference to a wendigo.

    Vicious Grace M.L.N. Hanover 2010

  • A few pages before the end of my stack, I saw the first reference to a wendigo.

    Vicious Grace M.L.N. Hanover 2010

  • A few pages before the end of my stack, I saw the first reference to a wendigo.

    Vicious Grace M.L.N. Hanover 2010

  • A game with giant birds, wendigo and Bigfoot .....

    Archive 2007-01-01 2007

  • In this piece the author draws on the mythology of the wendigo or wittigo, as she calls it here, as we meet a woman who long ago was reduced to cannibalism and in a feverish state, she fed her dying child to her husband to save his life during a terrible winter.

    September 4th, 2009 douglascohen 2009

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  • Prounounced "wen-dee-go", which is Algonquin for "the hunger." A malevolent cannibalistic spirit whose appetite for human flesh can never be satiated.

    March 14, 2008

  • delicious!

    April 14, 2009

  • Whether this word is spelled wendigo or windigo (preferred), the only attested pronunciation in reputable dictionaries is WIN-di-goh, as illustrated by this couplet by Ogden Nash: "The Wendigo, The Wendigo! Its eyes are ice and indigo!" — The Orthoepist

    October 24, 2011

  • No. It obviously rhymes with Bendigo, an Australian goldfields town near where my parents grew up. It will patiently await the Coming of the Third -Endigo, as prophesied in scripture, and finally be useful in limerick-making.

    October 25, 2011