Sou

Definition: Sou

Sou

Noun

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

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "sou" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references)

Etymology: Sou \Sou\, noun; plural Sousor. [French expression sou, Old French sol, from the Latin expression solidus gold coin, in LL., coin of less value. See Sold, noun, Solid, and and compare to Sol, Soldo.]. (Websters 1913)

SOU

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Money

Petty cash, pocket money, change, small change, small coin, doit, stiver, rap, mite, farthing, sou, penny, shilling, tester, groat, guinea; rouleau; wampum; good sum, round sum, lump sum; power of money, plum, lac of rupees.

Poverty

Adjective: poor, indigent; poverty-stricken; badly off, poorly off, ill off; poor as a rat, poor as a church mouse, poor as a Job; fortuneless, dowerless, moneyless, penniless; unportioned, unmoneyed; impecunious; out of money, out of cash, short of money, short of cash; without a rap, not worth a rap;(money); qui n'a pas le sou, out of pocket, hard up; out at elbows, out at heels; seedy, bare-footed; beggarly, beggared; destitute; fleeced, stripped; bereft, bereaved; reduced; homeless.

Worthlessness

Phrase: not worth the paper it's printed on, not worth a sou.

Crosswords: Sou

Afrikaan (would), French (brighter, clearer, penny, sou), Haitian Creole (at, on), Luxembourgish (roughly), Manx (moan), Portuguese (am).

To sapouni sou halas! Ton arapi kai an ton plenis (1973)

Diamantia sto gymno sou soma (1972)

Thanasi pare t'oplo sou (1972)

Krima to boi sou (1970)

Eu Não Sou Morte Eu Sou Vida (1970)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• A Northern Woman in the Plantation South: Letters of Tryphena Blanche Holder Fox 1856-1876 (Women's Diaries and Letters of the Nineteenth-Century sou (reference)

• Building a Home Movie Studio & Getting Your Films Online: An Indispensible Guide to Producing Your Own Films & Exhibiting Them on Today's Hottest sou (reference)

• Club Sandwich: Goes Well With Chicken Sou (reference)

• Oriental Caravan a Revelation of the Sou (reference)

• Sun Earth How to Apply Free Energy Sou (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Sou Wester (reference)

• Sou Wester Literary Magazine (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Music

• Sou de Qualquer Lugar (reference)

• Sou Ni Tile (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Eu sou o comunismo, esta n cara. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

He soon reached his last sou, never his last burst of laughter.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expression using "sou": not worth a sou. Additional references.

Ending with "sou": five-sou.

Containing "sou": ctn-sou-of, req-sou-of.

Arabic 

‏السو عملة فرنسية قديمة. (various references)

French

sou. (various references)

Greek 

πεντάρα (damn, nickel), δεκάρα (copper, damn, dime). (various references)

Hungarian

régi francia pénzérme, fitying (bawbee, dump, farthing, penny). (various references)

Manx

ping ruy (penny piece, stiver). (various references)

Pig Latin

ousay

Thai

เหรียญบรอนซ์ของฝรั่งเศส. (various references)

Turkish

metelik (bean, brass farthing, doit, farthing, penny, rap), beş kuruş. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "sou": souari, souaris, soubise, soubises, soubrette, soubrettes, soubriquet, soubriquets, soucar, soucars, souchong, souchongs, soudan, soudans, souffle, souffled, souffleed, souffles, sough, soughed, soughing, soughs, sought, souk, souks, soul, souled, soulful, soulfully, soulfulness, soulfulnesses, soulless, soullessly, soullessness, soullessnesses, soullike, souls, sound, soundable, soundalike, soundalikes, soundboard, soundboards, soundbox, soundboxes, sounded, sounder, sounders, soundest, sounding, soundingly. (additional references)

Words containing "sou": besought, bousouki, bousoukia, bousoukis, cassoulet, cassoulets, ensoul, ensouled, ensouling, ensouls, insouciance, insouciances, insouciant, insouciantly, insoul, insouled, insouling, insouls, missound, missounded, missounding, missounds, missout, missouts, multisource, outsourcing, outsourcings, oversoul, oversouls, resought, resound, resounded, resounding, resoundingly, resounds, resource, resourceful, resourcefully, resourcefulness, resourcefulnesses, resources, tressour, tressours, tsouris, ultrasound, ultrasounds, unsought, unsound, unsounded, unsounder, unsoundest. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: os, so, us.

+1 letter: duos, nous, onus, opus, ouds, ours, oust, outs, souk, soul, soup, sour, sous, sumo, udos.

+2 letters: autos, bogus, bolus, bonus, bosun, bouse, bousy, bouts, buoys, conus, coups, cusso, doums, douse, duros, euros, focus, fouls, fours, gouts, gusto, hocus, hours, house, jouks, joust, judos, kudos, kusso, locus, lotus, louis, loups, lours, louse, lousy, louts, meous, modus, momus, moues, mouse, mousy, muons, nodus, nouns, ouphs, ousel, ousts, ouzos, pious, poufs, pours, pouts, quods, roues, roups, rouse, roust, routs, sajou, scour, scout, scudo, shout, shoyu, snout, solum, solus, sorus, sough, souks, souls, sound, soups, soupy, sours, souse, south, soyuz, spout, stoup, stour, stout, sudor, sulfo, sumos, swoun, thous, tofus, tolus, tonus, torus, tours, touse, touts, umbos, uncos, updos, yours, youse.

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