Wheel-eyed

adj

adj ·Rare ·Advanced level

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Possessing very large eyes. especially, literary

    "Polypheme, the one-eyed, wheel-eyed Cyclops."

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"Polypheme, the one-eyed, wheel-eyed Cyclops."

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.

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