windigog

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English

Etymology

Borrowed from Ojibwe wiindigoog, plural of wiindigoo, with all long vowels written as single vowels.

Noun

windigog

  1. plural of windigo
    • 1979, Victor Barnouw, Wisconsin Chippewa Myths & Tales: And Their Relation to Chippewa Life:
      He asked her if the windigog were coming back yet and asked her to look.
    • 2012, Linda LeGarde Grover, The Dance Boots:
      Windigog, monsters not alive or dead...
    • 1985 , Daybreak Star, Volume 10:
      In the Northern Forests, there lived a race of terrible giants, the Windigog
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