Noun: sou
Sample Sentences
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He is grey, flat-footed and withered, with long, brittle nails that set your nerves on edge while he scrapes up your two sous. [1918 February (date written), Katherine Mansfield [pseudonym; Kathleen Mansfield Murry], “Je ne parle pas français”, in Bliss and Other Stories, London: Constable & Company, published 1920, →OCLC, page 73:]
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I do not care a sou for your excuses.
Nouns inflected like sou
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Borrowed from French sou. Doublet of sol, sold, soldo, solid, solidus, and xu. See: French Nouns '
sou'.