Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. a woman, a lady.

1843		Bellew Memoirs of a Griffin I 50: ‘Too much dam rogue, this Madras; plenty bad beebee [...] ver much cheatee gentlemen’.
1855		Delhi Sketch Bk 1 June 66/1: ‘What is the style of gammon that goes down Most slick and glibly with the Beebee Logue?’.
1864, 1867, 1870		Hotten Sl. Dict. 72: BEEBEE, a lady — Anglo-Indian.
1873		Sl. Dict.
1884		Times of India 11 Aug. 3/5: He said to her ‘Old woman, why do you not convey my message to Hajee Beebee? If you convey it to her, be sure she will be very kind to you’.
1927		(con. WW1) P. MacDonald Patrol 45: ‘They all [...] wants licenshus detail [...] Bibis, bibis, an’ more bibis’’.

2. a prostitute; a female bed-mate.

1886		Yule & Burnell Hobson-Jobson (1994) 78/1: BEEBEE, [...] The word is sometimes applied to a prostitute.
1923		J. Manchon Le Slang.