windigog

windigog

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