And elephant have a frunk phrunk.
Except that doesn’t make any sense because you wouldn’t change the name of the thing that inspires the naming of the new thing.
Otherwise it’s not a “frunk” it’s a “frobrunk” and then it’s not a “brunk” either it’s a “bafrobrunk” and on and on.
I’ve never heard of a fruck
And trunk originates with the trunk that was literally strapped to the back of a carriage to transport your stuff.
It’s supposed to be “frunk”, op typoed.
I use the british-ism, because “bonnet” sounds far less stupid than “frunk”
But then it share the word with the hat you wear.
And someone eventually will call it a fonnet.
More people wear hoodies than bonnets though
Because bonnet means “any of various hoods, covers, or protective devices”.
The etymology of which:
bonnet(n.) early 15c., “kind of cap or bonnet worn by men and women,” from Old French bonet, short for chapel de bonet, a cap made from bonet “kind of cloth used as a headdress” (12c., Modern French bonnet), from Medieval Latin bonitum, bonetum “material for hats,” which is perhaps a shortening of Late Latin abonnis “a kind of cap” (7c.), which is perhaps from a Germanic source. (If that is correct, a chapel de bonet would be etymologically a “cap made of cap”).
So bonnet as a cover for the forward part of a vehicle originated with bonnet as a cover for one’s head.
Is fruck a real word? I thought I made it up as a replacement swear word
Engine bay in the back should be a bootay
Haha, fine, I’ll give you that one