andouille

andouille, a type of sausage; imbecile, numpty, fool

“—Allons, ce n'est pas la première fois qu'on traite un journaliste d'andouille !” — "Come on, that isn't the first time a journalist's been called a fool!"

Inherited from Old French andoille, from Early Medieval Latin inductilis, from Latin indūcō (“cover, overlay”).