Green’s Dictionary of Slang

(US) worthless, useless, contemptible.

1840		T. Haliburton Clockmaker III 140: Well, says I, here’s sixpence for you, you young suckin’ Satan you.
1900		Sporting Times 13 Jan. 2/2: Comartofit, you sucking leader-writers—or, rather, go out of it! Put your putties on and get your swords ground; get in the thick of it.
1912		E. Pugh City Of The World 269: While the sniders themselves walk about as big as a sucking millionaire and clobbered up to the thatch in iky rig.
1944		G. Blake Shipbuilders (1954) 60: I was his batman, see. Gallipoli, Egypt, Palestine, France. Four sucking years of it.
1955		B. Schulberg On the Waterfront (1964) 114: That suckin Commission is just gonna get itself some headlines.
1990		J. Wambaugh Golden Orange (1991) 183: YOU LITTLE MAGGOT SUCKIN FRATERNITY VERMIN!