sou
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- noun
- /su/
- Archaic
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sou
- But not a sou do I get!
Examples
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Cost us every sou we got out of the rajah of Degumber.
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The fact that I am down to my last sou has nothing to do with it, and I would’ve told Juan so if he’d turned out to have been at all what I had hoped.
Fiction book (2001) -
I give you every sou I make and I still owe you.
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Oh, it's never cold here, and one can live on the beach without a sou.
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Of course, you understand, I meant 30 sou for each stocking.
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I haven't got a sou.
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Not worth a sou.
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But you haven't paid me a sou for six weeks, and that's as long as I'm going to wait.
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We would not require a sou for passage, nor would we be forced to bob about in the oceans with a horde of vomiting missionaries.
Fiction book (1990) -
I haven't got a sou to my name after paying all my bills.
Synonyms
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A British coin from the past worth a quarter of a penny, also meaning a very small amount
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An old British coin worth two pennies or a very small amount of money
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A small old coin from the Netherlands worth very little money
A very small amount of money that shows little value
A very small amount of money that has little value
A very small amount of money that has little value
Surface Forms
Etymology
Sou comes from an old French name for a coin and goes back to Latin solidus, which was a Roman 'coin'. Because the sou later became a low-value coin, people began to use it to mean a 'very small amount of money', so saying you do not have a sou is like saying you have not a penny.