Read the excerpt from "A Century Ride." "I'm choking with thirst," said Maude. "Get me a drink of water, and I'll tell you," and the Doctor bounced in for a dipper, and out to the pump for the required beverage. To update this excerpt to a more modern style, what slang would most likely replace "choking with thirst"? dying of thirst getting up a thirst athirst somethin' fierce cottonmouthed with thirst

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Teagan Nguyen

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23 March, 23:34

Read the excerpt from "A Century Ride." "I'm choking with thirst," said Maude. "Get me a drink of water, and I'll tell you," and the Doctor bounced in for a dipper, and out to the pump for the required beverage. To update this excerpt to a more modern style, what slang would most likely replace "choking with thirst"? dying of thirst getting up a thirst athirst somethin' fierce cottonmouthed with thirst

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Seamus Hardy · Answer 1

The correct answer is that the correct way to update this excerpt into a modern style is replacing ¨chicking with thirst¨ is by saying ¨dying of thirst¨. The slang dying is used more than by the actual term of death but by people being more dramatic to express their feelings.

Adrian Franco · Answer 2

Adrian Franco 23 March, 23:54

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I would say dying of thirst