windigo
/win-di-goh/US // ˈwɪn dɪˌgoʊ //UK // (ˈwɪndɪˌɡəʊ) //
风之岛,风之神,风之子,风之翼
Definitions
n.名词 noun
- 1
- : a cannibalistic giant, the transformation of a person who has eaten human flesh.
- : 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.
Examples
If he is a real Windigo, it will only do him good by driving out the ice.
They might overtake him, and if they did, a Windigo could expect no mercy from them.
He did not intend that the Windigo should creep on their camp without his knowing it.
But we must watch that we are not taken unawares by the evil Windigo.
He is a Windigo, in league with the evil one and hungering for human flesh.
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