Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. to cheat, to trick.

1891

Sporting Life 25 Mar. n.p.: He goes into a ring to fight his man, not to spar and look pretty, and run, and dodge, and guiver [F&H].

2. (Aus., also guyver) to abuse.

1882

Bulletin (Sydney) 17 June 10/2: Larrikin mob guyvered a Sydney Chinese storekeeper.

3. (Aus./N.Z.) to pretend, to put on airs.

1938		Western Mail (Perth) 10 Nov. 26/6: One writer claimed that eight out of 19 Australian slang words mentioned here were ‘of obvious Hebrew and Yiddish origin.’ [...] ‘cliner’, from ‘klein’ [...] ‘cobber’ from ‘chaver’, [...] ‘furphy’ [...] from the Yiddish ‘furfeer,’ to mislead, ‘guyver’, make believe [...] ‘rybebuck,’ correct or genuine, from the Hebrew ‘reivach’, meaning profit, ‘shick’ [...] meaning drunk, ‘smoodge.’ from the hebrew ‘schmoo-os’ [...] ‘yakker’ from ‘akeren’, meaning to plough.
1977		D. Powis Signs of Crime 186: To pretend gentility or affect a ‘well-bred’ voice.
1984		Partridge DSUE (8th edn) 511/2: from ca. 1880.