"herbert" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1963, Spike Milligan, Puckoon:",
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          "text": "[…] everything was busy now with the usual mix of herberts, and because this was Brunel University there was a lot of students, the sort who wouldn't normally go see a punk band […]",
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          "ref": "2007, Bobby Smith, Margaret Oshindele-Smith, One Love Two Colours:",
          "text": "Because of my appearance, I was accosted by a couple of spotty herberts on the way […]",
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          "ref": "2007, Paul Marko, The Roxy London WC2: A Punk History:",
          "text": "I was a proto-hippy in '66 - '67 and by about August '67 the bandwagon jumpers, the media and all manner of assorted herberts had turned up to spoil everything.",
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          "text": "Into this haunted house stumble a couple of modern-day herberts, Alison and Mike (Charlotte Ritchie and Kiell Smith-Bynoe). They have inherited Button Hall after the last of the Button family died. When they arrive to take stock of the place, the unseen ghosts mill around the couple in the great hall - and some don't like what they see. \"She's exposing her knees! And she's got a tattoo! exclaims the buttoned-up Edwardian Lady Button.",
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