Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. a deceitful, arrogant or pretentious person.

1959		Newport Jazz Festival: 1959 45: jive: [...] an unscrupulous person.
1971		H.E. Roberts Third Ear n.p.: jive n. [...] 2. an unreliable person. [...] 4. a persuasive talker quick to make commitments but prone to lie and to make excuses for not delivering. 5. a person who is always late but with a semiplausible excuse.
1977		A. Brooke Last Toke 40: Sure is better lookin’ ’n that jive ...!

2. an unsophisticated person.

1968		‘Hy Lit’ Hy Lit’s Unbelievable Dict. of Hip Words 24: jive – A square, seed, cube.
1971		H.E. Roberts Third Ear n.p.: jive n. […] 7. one who is not in the ‘know.’.