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😊 A gentle nickname 🦌 A young deer 😳 A naive person
Bambi

Bambi

14 3.3
A young deer character in a famous children's story and film
  • proper noun
  • /ˈbæm.bi/
  • Literature
translation icon : Bambi
  • Come here, Bambi.
  • Disney's Bambi
  • Bambi's mom
  • Bambi's mother

And then I was, I was hanging out with his kids and his kids is watching Bambi.

Examples

  • Prince Bambi ought to be mighty proud.

    Bambi (1942)

  • Mother had taken him to see Bambi when he was five, and the forest fire at the end of the movie had given him nightmares for months.

    Fiction book (1991)

  • You see, Bambi is the innocent one.

    Submergence (2017)

  • I am sure you have watched the original Bambi, right?

    Blog text (21)

  • I see you've met my friends, Bambi and Thumper.

    Diamonds Are Forever (1971)

  • It's Bambi.

    I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell (2009)

  • Oh, the wonderful books of my childhood: The Wind in the Willows, Bambi, The Bobbsey Twins, Heidi, and all the little biography books I used to check out at school.

    Blog text (28)

  • This week, Disney's "Cinderella" received the Diamond Edition Blu-Ray treatment, joining the ranks of classics like "Bambi" and "Lady and the Tramp."

    Blog text (4)

  • When I was a child, I loved to watch the story about Bambi and his adventures in the forest.

  • In the classic Disney film, Bambi learns important lessons about friendship and loss.

Idioms

like Bambi on ice
  • UK
9.9

To move clumsily and unsteadily, like a new skater

Compounds

Bambi look
  • Informal
8.8

A look with wide childlike eyes that shows innocence

Bambi lover
8.1

A person who loves the character Bambi or cute animals and cares for wildlife

Surface Forms

Bambi main

Etymology

Bambi was used as the name of a young deer in a well-known book and film, and the name probably comes from the Italian bambino 'child' or 'baby'. That is why the character is a young, innocent fawn who learns about life in the forest.