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.