subs. (old).—1. A querulous fault-finder, GRIZZLE-GUTS (q.v.); one ready to catch another tripping or to ‘pick holes’; one on the lookout for a blemish or weak spot.
1603. CHAPMAN, Iliad, Preface. But there is a certain envious WINDSUCKER, that hovers up and down.
1880. SWINBURNE, A Study of Shakespeare, 54. It would be something too extravagant for the veriest WIND-SUCKER among commentators to start a theory that a revision was made of his original work by Marlowe after additions had been made to it by Shakespeare.
