WINDIGO


Meaning of WINDIGO in English

[ 'wɪndɪgəʊ ]

(also wendigo )

■ noun ( plural ~s or ~es ) (in the folklore of the northern Algonquian Indians) a person transformed into a monster by eating human flesh.

Origin

from Ojibwa wintiko .

Concise Oxford English vocab.      Сжатый оксфордский словарь английского языка.