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Name given to male deer, say? Originally, the ungulates in some faraway place (8)

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I believe the answer is:

timbuktu

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'some faraway place' is the definition.
(proverbially faraway place)

'name given to male deer say? originally the ungulates' is the wordplay.
I cannot really understand how this works, but
'name' could be 'tim' (short for Timothy) and 'tim' is present in the answer.
'the' could be 't' (the is pronounced as a 't' sound in some dialects) and 't' is found in the answer.
This may be the basis of clue (or it may be nonsense).

'in' acts as a link.

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(Other definitions for timbuktu that I've seen before include "Desert city in Mali" , "Oh, go to - very remote town in Mali, Africa?" , "Mali town (a remote place?)" , "Any distant or outlandish place (in Mali?)" , "Town in Mali used as a metaphor for a distant place" .)

I've seen this clue in The Guardian.
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