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Brewer's: Capital Fellow
(A). A stock-jobber, in French called Un Capitaine, par allusion aux capitaux sur lesquels un agiote habituellement. A good-tempered, jovial, and generous person.
Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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