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The Republic of Costa Rica is a South American country in the Caribbean region. The name seems to come from the account of Christopher Columbus, who claimed to have seen there "the greatest sign of gold in two first days than in Hispaniola in four years", which led many sailors to its shores looking for their wealth in gold.
The expression "the great seven" was used in the rioplatense trick ("card game with Spanish deck") when the card with the seven of swords was shown. Later (or earlier, as there is antecedents far from the Rio de la Plata) it began to be used as a euphemism for the exclamation "the great whore!" and from there 'seven' was mistaken for a harlot or a prostitute, but the meaning is different. See ahijuna .
It is a Spanish verb that is used for the case (very common today in social networks) in which an important fact or situation is revealed that ruins the plot in a book, movie, series or story in general to those who are following them. Although much less in Spanish, it is also used in political campaigns when a candidate with little voting intention harms another with a higher chance of being elected. It comes from to spoil ("going after something or someone to modify or harm your situation").
It is actually a humorous exaggeration created by the author Quintus Horace Flaccus as sesquipedal ([words of] foot and a half [long]") attached to the suffix -phobia to invent a name for the "fear of long words". It is one of the best of all those that appeared (see list of synonyms), only because it makes it clear that it is not serious, and is very, very nardo. It became famous as part of the hypopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia hoax.
It is one of the many proposals that appeared on the web from the hypopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia hoax as the "fear of long words, with many letters". It consists of the Greek voices 956; 949; 947; 945; 955; 959; ( megalo "big" ) 955; 959; 947; 959; 962; ( logos "study, treatise, writing" ) 966; 959; 946; 959; 962; ( fovos "fear") .