/win"di goh'/ , n.
1. (in the folklore of the Ojibwa and other Indians) a cannibalistic giant, the transformation of a person who has eaten human flesh.
2. Psychiatry. a culture-specific syndrome occurring primarily among the Ojibwa and related Indian peoples and characterized by fever-induced delusions that one is being possessed by such a giant. Also called witigo .
[ 1705-15; wi·ntiko·; c. Cree wi·htiko·w ]