English
pull-off cap
From pull-off + cap.
Latin caput ‘head’
Late Latin cappa ‘cap, hood, cape’
Proto-West Germanic *kappā ‘covering, hood, mantle’
Old English cæppe ‘cap, hood’
Middle English cappe ‘cap’
English cap
Today it means
noun A bottle cap that can be opened by pulling a ring or tab and thereby loosening the cap from the bottle.
Sources
Sources: Wiktionary, “pull-off cap”. By Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0, via kaikki.org (dump of Oct 3 2026); text adapted and restructured. Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word. License.
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