sou

One of several coins formerly used in France, worth a small amount.

An abbreviation of southern.

An old Roman, Gallic, and French coin, originally of gold, then of silver, and finally of copper.

an old copper piece worth fifteen deniers (Littré); also, in the corrupted form sou marquee, said to be applied in the southern United States to a sou bearing some distinguishing mark, as a sou of 1767 counterstamped RF, or one marked in some way as counterfeit or spurious.

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.

An old French copper coin.

(slang) cent; pocket money.

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