Bambino \Bam*bi"no\ (b[aum]m*b[=e]"n[-o]), n.; It. pl. {-ni}. [It., a little boy, fr. bambo silly; cf. Gr. bambali`zein, bambai`nein, to chatter.] 1. A child or baby; esp., a representation in art of the infant Christ wrapped in swaddling clothes. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
2. (Sports) George Herman Ruth ("Babe" Ruth), the baseball player; -- usu. in the form ``the bambino''.
Sometimes, it seems, bimbos marry bimbos (and perhaps produce a bambino, the Italian word for child or baby that is generally believed to be the root from which the word bimbo sprang).
But in it, she gets to sing the most famous aria of the evening, "O mio bambino caro," which she did with sublime tenderness.