Question

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

Answer 1

I would say dying of thirst

Answer 2

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.