Home › Words › P › pufflingpuffling/ˈpʌflɪŋ/puffling means A young puffin.puffling is pronounced /ˈpʌflɪŋ/.EtymologyFrom puff(in) + -ling.nounA young puffin.e.g.“These fish are brought to the fluffy little Puffins in their snug nests inside of a burrow or under a slab of rock. The babies are called “Pufflings.”” — 1962, Robert Porter Allen, The Giant Golden Book of Birds: An Introduction to Familiar and Interesting Birds of the World, New York, N.Y.: Golden Press, →OCLC, page 54, column 2:Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).