1890 W. James I. xiv. 558 The ‘cue’ was given by single-syllabled words called out by an assistant.
1948 E. Sitwell vi. 72 In such lines [from King Lear]..the single-syllabled words take on the hugeness of those new-made stones that Deucalion and Pyrrha, the Deluge being over, found and cast behind their backs.