windigo
windigo is the alternative spelling of wendigo.
Meaning of wendigo
Noun
wendigo (plural wendigo or wendigos or wendigoes)
- 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
- Synonym of splake (“kind of hybrid fish”).
- Synonyms:
- splake
Forms of windigo
| plural | windigo |
|---|---|
| plural | windigos |
| plural | windigoes |
| plural | windigog |
Questions about windigo
- What is windigo the alternative spelling of?
- Windigo is the alternative spelling of wendigo.
Words near windigo in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: windigo (page history and authors); wendigo (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
Last updated:
Cite this entry: “windigo.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/windigo. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.