1801 W. Roxburgh in Asiatick Researches 7 171 Delphinus Gangeticus... Soosoo is the name it is known by amongst the Bengalese about Calcutta. They are found in great numbers in the Ganges.

1878 J. Anderson Anat. & Zool. Res. Yunnan I. 422 Platanista gangetica... This genus is known by different names along the Ganges, Indus, and Brahmaputra. Along the first-mentioned river, the term generally applied to it is sus, susu, or sunsar; along the Indus it is called, as a rule, bulhan.

1885 Riverside Nat. Hist. (1888) V. 191 The Susu (Platanista gangetica) inhabits the Brahmapootra as well as the Ganges.

1670 J. Ogilby Africa 368 The Kingdom of Bena and Sousos, deriving its Name from the inhabitants of its principal Town, which is named Sousos, stands situate about nine days Journey from..the Kingdom of..Serre-Lions.]

1786 J. Matthews Let. 20 Feb. in Voy. River Sierra Leone (1791) 13 The river Riopongeos..is..one of the principal rivers for trade... The natives are originally Suzeés.

1786 J. Matthews Let. 20 Nov. in Voy. River Sierra Leone (1791) 95 The Suzeé language seems to be the root from which the Bagoe..sprung.

1803 T. Winterbottom Acct. Native Africans Sierra Leone I. i. 5 The Bulloms..possessed the whole of the river Kissee, from which they were driven by a nation called Soosoos or Suzees.

1845 Encycl. Metrop. XXIV. 579/2 The Súsús were well known to the learned and philosophical Arab historian of Africa.

1846 R. G. Latham in Proc. Philol. Soc. 2 221 The Susu, of which we have a grammar, is allied to the Mandingo.

1911 F. W. H. Migeod Lang. W. Afr. I. i. 33 Among the tribes whose languages furnish evidence of the extent of Mandingo influence are the Malinke, Bambara, Susu, [etc.].

1957 M. Banton West Afr. City vii. 127 The Susu and Yalunka (or Dyalonke) appear to be two branches of the same people... There are four Susu and three Yalunka chiefdoms.

1977 Whitaker's Almanack 758 The southern half of Sierra Leone is inhabited by peoples whose languages fall into the Mende group; the northern half by the Temne, and smaller groups such as the..Susu.

1919 Trinidad Guardian 31 Dec. 2/2 Claim for 18s 9d. ‘sou-sou’ money.

1998 D. Franklyn in D. R. Brown Sel. Issues & Probl. Social Policy (Stud. Caribbean Public Policy vol. 2) vi. 213 There is a susu at almost every workplace and no village is without its susu.

2014 E. Karre All You Are 25 ‘I got to make a susu payment on Friday..,’ Mom said. ‘When is it your turn for the susu money?’ I asked... ‘Seven weeks... Can't wait.’