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herbert
noun- a mischievous child or youth UK
Quite often heard as “little herbert”. - [T]he school herberts queuing outside the study for the cane. — Martin King and Martin Knight, The Naughty Nineties, p. 150, 1999
- Us gypsy boys were drinking with the local herberts. — Jimmy Stockin, On The Cobbles, p. 108, 2000
- a harmless youth; a ridiculous man UK, 1960
An extension of the previous sense. - She said, “Sod off, Scruffy ‘erbert.” — Tom Wolfe, The Noonday Underground, p. 67, 1968
- [H]e was a fuckin’ spotty herbert student for fuck’s sake. — J.J. Connolly, Know Your Enemy [britpulp], p. 139, 1999
- [M]echanised Old Bill [police] too heavy and slow to catch these scruffy skin-and-bone herberts[.] — John King, White Trash, p. 3, 2001
- a man in a specified field of endeavour UK
- All great men keep diaries. Pepys, Boswell, Shaw, all we literary herberts. — Ray Galton and Alan Simpson, Hancock’s Half Hour, 30 December 1956
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