The "lucky country" was meant as a dig rather than a term of endearment.

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To her every address she appended a term of endearment: sweetness, monkey, pie-pie.

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Indeed, the system is very "Tico, " Costa Ricans' term of endearment for themselves.

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They all gather around it to watch it die as it mumbles something incoherent, much in the way the prawns (another term of endearment) communicate in District 9.

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