While "sucks" tends to be thought of as an Americanism, I think it occurs in the sense mentioned in William Golding's "Lord of the Flies" (mid- or late 1950s?), where someone says to the rather hypochrondriacal character Piggy, "Sucks to your Auntie", or maybe his "Grandma" (brought up by this female relative, he evidently sees her as the fount of all wisdom, and often begins sentences with, "My Auntie/Granny says...").

Why the word "sucks" is used thus, however, eludes me, unless a loud "sucking" sound were a traditional way of expressing disapproval; an alternative to booing?   I remember at school, a long time ago, that one variant of "Teacher's Pet" was, "a sook", that is, someone who "sucked up" to the teacher, and instances of this kind of fawning behaviour were immediately greeted by a chorus of sucking sounds (put you in mind of four calves around a cow's udder). Aye, things were rough in them days.