Thursday 2 September 7-by-many FOOTWEAR puzzle

[ridethetalk]

FROOT – following on from my previous post about electric vehicles: A boot (storage compartment) located at the front rather than the rear of a car, especially an electric vehicle.

[Scouser1952]

I thought it was a drunk/

[Scouser1952]

That is FRUNK!

[ridethetalk]

If the rear storage area is a boot, it's a froot; if the rear storage area is a trunk, it's a frunk... 

[mkenuk]

And is the part that hides the engine the honnet or the bood?

[Scouser1952]

I don’t frunkly know.

[ridethetalk]

And is the part that hides the engine the honnet or the bood?

You don't have that part in an electric car because there is no engine...

[yelnats]

You don't have that part in an electric car because there is no engine

Motor / engine. They don't have pedals!

[Alan W]

Froot and frunk are both in Wiktionary, with some supporting quotations. They haven't made it into any other dictionaries yet as far as I can see.

On the occasions when these words are used, they're often in quotes, and with an explanation of what they mean - an indication of how new these words are. For example, in The Times (UK) in May 2019:

There’s room in the back for three adults, although headroom could be an issue, and a combined 425 litres of storage in the boot and “froot” — front boot.

Having said that, there are some examples going back to 2012 (froot) and 2003 (frunk).

Evidence on the extent of use of the word froot is hard to come by because of Froot Loops, but frunk shows a flurry of examples from 2019 onwards.

Both these words will be accepted in future as rare words.

[ridethetalk]

Thanks Alan...