Sou

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Sou \Sou\, n.; pl. {Sous}or. [F. sou, OF. sol, from L. solidus a
     gold coin, in LL., a coin of less value. See {Sold}, n.,
     {Solid}, and and cf. {Sol}, {Soldo}.]
     An old French copper coin, equivalent in value to, and now
     displaced by, the five-centime piece (1/20 of a franc), which
     is popularly called a sou.


     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  sou
       n : a former French coin of low denomination; often used of any
           small amount of money; "he hasn't a sou to his name"

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  93 Moby Thesaurus words for "sou":
     Deutschmark, Mark, Reichsmark, a continental, a curse, a damn,
     a darn, a hoot, afghani, anna, bagatelle, baht, bauble, bean,
     bibelot, bit, brass farthing, button, cent, centavo, centime,
     conto, curio, dollar, dong, farce, farthing, feather, fig,
     fleabite, florin, folderol, franc, fribble, frippery, gaud, gewgaw,
     gimcrack, guilder, gulden, hair, halfpenny, hill of beans, jest,
     joke, kickshaw, kip, knickknack, knickknackery, kopeck, krona,
     krone, lira, milreis, minikin, mockery, molehill, peppercorn,
     peseta, picayune, pie, piece of eight, pin, pinch of snuff,
     pinprick, pistareen, pound, rand, rap, red cent, rial, row of pins,
     ruble, rupee, rush, shekel, shilling, shit, snap, sneeshing, sol,
     stiver, straw, toy, trifle, trinket, triviality, tuppence,
     two cents, twopence, whim-wham, won, yen