bambino
Americannoun
plural
bambinos,plural
bambini-
a small child or baby.
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an image of the infant Jesus.
noun
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informal a young child, esp an Italian one
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a representation of the infant Jesus
Usage
What does bambino mean? Bambino is the Italian word for a "male child or baby." It can also be used as a nickname or term of endearment for a man more generally.
Etymology
Origin of bambino
1755–65; < Italian, equivalent to bamb ( o ) childish (perhaps originally nursery word) + -ino diminutive suffix
Example Sentences
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She claims she even uses words and mannerisms such as "mamma mia", "bambino" and "si" in conversation without realising it.
From BBC • Dec. 22, 2024
Michelangelo: I’m lookin’ at your paintings and I gotta say I see no Real diff’rence from the scribbles of a one-armed bambino.
From Washington Post • Apr. 2, 2020
First, Andrea Pirlo doing the Panenka penalty on the gurning, arms-flapping, Grobbelaar-impersonating Joe Hart, a moment of beauty that was missing only the words: "Ciao, bambino".
From The Guardian • Jun. 7, 2014
As a "beardless bambino" of 20, with only a season's conducting of a road-show opera company behind him, he was hired to play a concert in Turin, and demanded two rehearsals.
From Time Magazine Archive
"There is the bambino," said the mother, simply.
From Sir John Constantine Memoirs of His Adventures At Home and Abroad and Particularly in the Island of Corsica: Beginning with the Year 1756 by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir
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