From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Sou \Sou\, noun; pl. {Sous}or. [F. sou, OF. sol, from L. solidus a gold coin, in LL., a coin of less value. See {Sold}, noun, {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.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
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"
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
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