# Etymology of beeyotch **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [August 10, 2006, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/etymology-of-beeyotch/368102 "2006-08-10T02:52:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Enola\_Straight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/dec6dc/32.png) [@Enola\_Straight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enola_Straight)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2006, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/etymology-of-beeyotch/368102/1 "2006-08-10T02:52:13Z")
Beyotch…bee-otch…bayitch…obviously deriver from “bitch”, but who first uttered the variation? Beavis? ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2006, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/etymology-of-beeyotch/368102/2 "2006-08-10T02:59:08Z")
I don’t know who first said it, and I haven’t thought about how it evolved. But thinking off the cuff, I think it may have derived from a variation on a Southern-derived dialect. For example, ‘shit’ is sometimes pronounced ‘shee-it’; possibly by way of intensifying the word. It seems reasonable that ‘bitch’ may be intensified by pronouncing it ‘bee-itch’. By adding emphasis to the second syllable, and perhaps ‘shouting’ it, ‘bee-itch’ becomes ‘bee-ITCH!’, which is a short step from ‘bee-_otch!_’. IANA etymologist, and the above explanation was entirely extemporaneous. IOW: a WAG. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Drake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@Dr.Drake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Drake)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2006, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/etymology-of-beeyotch/368102/3 "2006-08-10T03:01:19Z")
Some varieties of spoken English lengthen and then split the vowel: bitch \> beetch \> bee-uch. I am thinking of some Midwestern & Southern U.S. dialects, but BEV (Black English Vernacular, undoubtedly called something else by now) probably does the same thing and has a greater influence on slang. Exaggerate for effect and you’ve got yourself a new word. Compare damn \> day-um. I don’t see this often, but (no cite) I recall seeing it in print long before I saw the two-syllable beeyatch spellings. ---
**Author:** ![Shagnasty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9dc877/32.png) [@Shagnasty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shagnasty)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2006, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/etymology-of-beeyotch/368102/4 "2006-08-10T03:01:55Z")
Beeotch is a variant pronunciation of bitch first used by Oakland rapper Too $hort in the early 80’s. [www.dictionaryofeverything.com/explore/097/Bitch.html](http://www.dictionaryofeverything.com/explore/097/Bitch.html) ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2006, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/etymology-of-beeyotch/368102/5 "2006-08-10T03:03:37Z")
I first heard it on _Buffy_. ---
**Author:** ![Shagnasty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9dc877/32.png) [@Shagnasty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shagnasty)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2006, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/etymology-of-beeyotch/368102/6 "2006-08-10T03:03:49Z")
Sorry that link doesn’t work. I was listening to a little Too Short today and he does indeed say that although I can’t say if it was the first. It was probably the first in mass media. [http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=define+beeotch&btnG=Google+Search](http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=define+beeotch&btnG=Google+Search) ---
**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2006, 5:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/etymology-of-beeyotch/368102/7 "2006-08-10T05:48:40Z")
[QUOTE=Shagnasty] Beeotch is a variant pronunciation of bitch first used by Oakland rapper Too $hort in the early 80’s. > **[dictionaryofeverything.com](https://www.dictionaryofeverything.com)** > > "Unleash Your Potential: Explore, Innovate, and Grow with the Wisdom of the World!" [/QUOTE] I have to say that the term was first popularized by Mr. Snoop Doggy Dogg, even if he wasn’t the first to coin the expression …Biatch!!