SOU

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does sou mean? 

• SOU (noun)
  The noun SOU has 1 sense:

1. a former French coin of low denomination; often used of any small amount of money

  Familiarity information: SOU used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SOU (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A former French coin of low denomination; often used of any small amount of money

Classified under:

Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession

Context example:

he hasn't a sou to his name

Hypernyms ("sou" is a kind of...):

coin (a flat metal piece (usually a disc) used as money)

 Context examples 

“Wouldn’t take a sou less, so help me.”

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

Nay, ma petite, but here is a two-sous piece for thy kindly tongue and for the sight of thy pretty face.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

We’re in for a sou’-easter.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

The night should have turned more wet since I came in, for he had a large sou'wester hat on, slouched over his face.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Everything was wet except Maud, and she, in oilskins, rubber boots, and sou’wester, was dry, all but her face and hands and a stray wisp of hair.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Not much of a person to look at, he warn't, said Mr. Peggotty, something o' my own build—rough—a good deal o' the sou'-wester in him—wery salt—but, on the whole, a honest sort of a chap, with his art in the right place.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

This first day was made more difficult for me from the fact that the Ghost, under close reefs (terms such as these I did not learn till later), was plunging through what Mr. Mugridge called an ’owlin’ sou’-easter.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)