wheel-eyed

English

Etymology

The traditional translation or calque of Ancient Greek Κύκλωψ (Kúklōps), a folk etymology equivalent to wheel +‎ eye, wherein the mythical one-eyed giants, cyclops, had eyes as large as cartwheels.

Adjective

wheel-eyed (comparative more wheel-eyed, superlative most wheel-eyed)

  1. (epithet, literary, especially of the cyclops) Possessing very large eyes.
    • 1926 January, Aldous Huxley, “The Monocle”, in The Criterion, volume 4, Faber and Gwyer, Ltd., page 42:
      Polypheme, the one-eyed, wheel-eyed Cyclops.
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