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wiindigoo

wiindigoo is the alternative spelling of wendigo.

Meaning of wendigo

Noun

wendigo (plural wendigo or wendigos or wendigoes)

  1. A malevolent and violent cannibal spirit found in Anishinaabe, Ojibwe, and Cree mythology, which is said to inhabit the body of a living person and possess him or her to commit murder.
    • Through the pine woods of Keewaydin, / Over the snows of Shebandowan, / The Wendigo roams in the winter's frost / And pursues to destruction the hunter. / Yet no man can meet with the Wendigo, / No man can face him or see him; / Only his track in the snow is seen, / And lost is the hunter that sees...1905, Ernest Thompson Seton, “The Wendigo: Winter Death”, in Woodmyth & Fable, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC, page 161
  2. Synonym of splake (“kind of hybrid fish”).
    Synonyms:
    splake

Forms of wiindigoo

pluralwiindigoos
pluralwiindigoog

Questions about wiindigoo

What is wiindigoo the alternative spelling of?
Wiindigoo is the alternative spelling of wendigo.

Words near wiindigoo in the dictionary

  1. Wii
  2. wiikite
  3. wiikites
  4. Wiimote
  5. Wiimotes
  6. wiindigoo
  7. wiindigoog
  8. wiindigoos
  9. Wiis
  10. WIITWD
  11. Wijchen

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