Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
windigo .
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- noun Alternative spelling of
windigo .
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Examples
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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
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Blomquist says the aboriginals in the area thought Thompson could turn people into the evil cannibalistic entity known as a wendigo and avoided him.
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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
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Maybe I can find an erotic take on the wendigo myth for a piece of my own.
Postcards from Europa (Pt. 3) greygirlbeast 2009
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The wendigo ep, doesn't that just take you back to think about it?
Supernatural: Two Minutes to Midnight - Pink Raygun.com 2010
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A few pages before the end of my stack, I saw the first reference to a wendigo.
Vicious Grace M.L.N. Hanover 2010
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A few pages before the end of my stack, I saw the first reference to a wendigo.
Vicious Grace M.L.N. Hanover 2010
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A few pages before the end of my stack, I saw the first reference to a wendigo.
Vicious Grace M.L.N. Hanover 2010
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A game with giant birds, wendigo and Bigfoot .....
Archive 2007-01-01 2007
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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
dgstone commented on the word wendigo
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
madmouth commented on the word wendigo
delicious!
April 14, 2009
chelster commented on the word wendigo
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
bilby commented on the word wendigo
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