You goose; you simpleton; you booby. Bécasse is a woodcock. “Cʹest une becasse,” he or she is a fool.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.