Bambi
noun
a familiar name for a baby deer.
Bambi
American
[bam-bee]
/ ˈbæm bi /
noun
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a familiar name for a baby deer.
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a first name.
bambi
British
/ ˈbæmbɪɜ /
acronym
Etymology
Origin of Bambi
From the deer in the children's book of the same name (1923) by Hungarian-born author Felix Salten, pen name of Siegmund Salzmann (1869–1945)
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“I think it’s been based on ideology, on a Walt Disney view of the world with Bambi, where you see human beings as inherently bad” for the environment.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 2, 2026
Hague said she had "extreme emotions" early on in her pregnancy with Bambi and had been crying every day.
From BBC ● Feb. 5, 2026
"The perspective of it being a reindeer, a Bambi, doesn't really appeal to people," admitted Atesh Luximon, executive head chef at Imperial.
From Barron's ● Dec. 21, 2025
In the exterior of the dwelling, Jenner transformed her Bambi Airstream into a third guest room—having received the vehicle as a “very special birthday gift” that she found she did not need in L.A.
From MarketWatch ● Dec. 16, 2025
When Walt Disney made a motion picture of Bambi, his artists based their images on the Great North Woods of Maine, but this was palpably not a Disney forest of roomy glades and cuddlesome creatures.
From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson
But Moonen and his well-travelled bambi did himself no favours.
From The Guardian ● May 25, 2013
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