Definitions for windigo

windigo win·di·go

Spelling: [win-di-goh]
IPA: /ˈwɪn dɪˌgoʊ/

Windigo is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 92 anagrams from letters in windigo (dgiinow).

Definitions for windigo

noun

  1. (in the folklore of the Ojibwa and other Indians) a cannibalistic giant, the transformation of a person who has eaten human flesh.
  2. Psychiatry. a culture-specific syndrome occurring primarily among the Ojibwa and related Indian peoples and characterized by fever-induced delusions that one is being possessed by such a giant.

Origin of windigo

1705-15; Ojibwa wi·ntiko·; cognate with Cree wi·htiko·w

Examples for windigo

windigo is the Indian name for a man who has eaten human flesh and has learned to like it.

The windigo at once consented: we got into his canoe, and he ferried us over.

But we must watch that we are not taken unawares by the evil windigo.

They might overtake him, and if they did, a windigo could expect no mercy from them.

Rather starve on the Whale, they said, than in the haunted valleys where the voices of the windigo filled the nights with fear.

He is a windigo, in league with the evil one and hungering for human flesh.

The windigo soon paddled over to us, and I had a good opportunity of studying his appearance.

He did not intend that the windigo should creep on their camp without his knowing it.

He would soon learn if the hide of a windigo was tough enough to turn the knife-like fangs of Fleur, and the bullets of his 30-30.

Word Value for windigo
Scrable

12

Words with friends

14

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