The part of the car used to hold items you won't need access to without stopping the vehicle is called the boot in the UK, and the trunk in the US. These words may be different, but their meaning is incredibly similar when taken back to their origins.
The term frunk has emerged in automotive circles as a term for an enclosed storage compartment located near the front of the vehicle. Such compartments are meant to be analogous to a trunk, which is traditionally located in the car's rear. Frunk, naturally, is a portmanteau of trunk and front.
Boot. Now you might think a boot belongs on a foot and a trunk on an elephant, but in auto parts terms, you'd be wrong. The British term for the rear storage space is the boot and the Americans call it a trunk.
The word "boot"(which is commonly used by the English), goes back to 18th century horse-drawn carriages where the coachman sat on a chest, which was used to store, among other things, his boots. This storage space came to be termed as the "boot locker", which soon became the "boot".
Bonnet: North Americans know this as the hood of a car. Boot: the trunk of a car. Booze bus: how Australians refer to mobile breath testing units. You might spot these big vans on the side of the road where police are conducting random breath tests of motorists.
In British English, the boot of a car is the covered space, usually at the back, where you put things such as luggage or shopping. Is the boot open? In American English, this part of a car is called the trunk.
Indians are familiar with and continue to employ the word dickey (also spelt dickie or dicky) as a synonym for the British boot and the American trunk. It is a leftover from British India that has persisted in Indian English but lapsed out of use everywhere else.
Trunk is translated in German by...
Der Kofferraum (m)
In British English, the metal cover over the engine of a car is called the bonnet. I lifted the bonnet to see what the problem was. In American English, it is called the hood.
A boot is the trunk of a car. The place where your spare tire, groceries and other bulky items go. A common command as an Irish child was to “pop the boot."
“Bloke” would be the American English equivalent of “dude.” It means a "man." In the same vein as “bloke,” “lad” is used, however, for boys and younger men.
Most gas-powered vehicles place an engine at the front and a trunk at the rear. But frunks aren't exclusively the domain of electric vehicles. Rear-engine cars like the Porsche 911 may have a front trunk, and mid-engine models such as the Chevrolet Corvette may have trunks at both ends of the vehicle.
frunk is a valid English word.
boot n2. 1 a The trunk of a car. [ Transf from boot the luggage compartment of a coach or other carriage; in the US (and Canada) generally replaced by trunk, but still the std term in Brit Engl] scattered, but chiefly W Midl, Sth, esp OH relic.
bonnet & boot (what countries use this?) Explanation: This is British English which is why the Canadians use it also.
Conclusion. We could go on all day with car slang. Some of it will even change depending on which country you're in. For example, a trunk, hood, and gas in Canada are referred to as a boot, bonnet, and petrol in English countries.
Trunk: Canadians store items in the car in the “trunk” not the “boot”
Meaning of dickey in English
the covered space at the back of a car, where you can put luggage, etc.
The American equivalent of a 'car boot' would be the 'trunk,' but a trunk sale is unrelated to this type of event.
The front window of the car is named the windscreen in the UK, while in the USA, they've tweaked it just slightly to read windshield. Both 'screen' and 'shield' suggest protection and so are still quite similar in their meaning, linguistically.
Scone (UK) / Biscuit (US)
These are the crumbly cakes that British people call scones, which you eat with butter, jam, sometimes clotted cream and always a cup of tea.
A steering wheel (also called a driving wheel (UK), a hand wheel, or simply wheel) is a type of steering control in vehicles.
Trackie dacks are tracksuit trousers, and underdacks are underpants or knickers.