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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)
- (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.