bug eye

noun

A style of eyeglasses with large lenses, usually covering the entire eye.

Meanings

nounbug eye (plural bug eyes)

plural bug eyes

  1. singularsingular of bug eyes
  2. attributiveA style of eyeglasses with large lenses, usually covering the entire eye.

    […] more like a boy, though, Haldane thought, with his pink skin and his bug-eye glasses.

    1994, Robert Charles Wilson, Mysterium, Hachette, →ISBN
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