houngenikon

== English == === Alternative forms === ounjenikon === Etymology === From Haitian Creole. Compare houngan. === Pronunciation === === Noun === houngenikon (plural houngenikons) (voodoo) The leader of singing in a voodoo ceremony. 1995, Karen McCarthy Brown, in Cosentino (ed.), Sacred Arts of Haitian Vodou, South Sea International Press 1998, p. 211: I was told that the Vodou priest Cesar had had a serious fight with Nicole, the ounjenikon, mistress of song, of his temple.