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beebee noun aunt 19. etymology: Romany; attested in OED as: Urdu bībī lady, < Persian, originally Eastern Turki bībī ‘lady, a lawful wife’; collected by Rev John Baird and Joseph F G S Lucas from Kirk Yetholm Gypsies note:

Smart & Crofton (1875) collected the forms Beebee, beébi, bibi ‘an aunt’ from English Gypsies.