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wheel-eyed

wheel-eyed adjective: possessing very large eyes.

Adjective

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

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

Forms of wheel-eyed

comparativemore wheel-eyed
superlativemost wheel-eyed

Origin of wheel-eyed

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.

Questions about wheel-eyed

What does wheel-eyed mean?
Wheel-eyed means possessing very large eyes.
What part of speech is wheel-eyed?
Wheel-eyed is an adjective.

Words near wheel-eyed in the dictionary

  1. wheel-chairs
  2. wheel-clamp
  3. wheel-clamped
  4. wheel-clamping
  5. wheel-clamps
  6. wheel-eyed
  7. wheel-horse
  8. wheel-horses
  9. wheel-house
  10. wheel-houses
  11. wheel-race

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