John le Carre wrote fiction espionage novels. Espionage novels are novels which focus on a spy's life or spying in general. His most famous work is The Spy That Came In from the Cold.
The definition of a ditz is slang for someone who is silly or who seems to have scattered thinking. An example of ditz is a silly dumb person who just giggles all day. ditz. Slang a person thought of as being flighty, eccentric, silly, etc. ditz.
A distaff and a spindle. As a noun a distaff (/ËdÉªstÉËf/, also called a rock) is a tool used in spinning. It is designed to hold the unspun fibers, keeping them untangled and thus easing the spinning process. It is most commonly used to hold flax, and sometimes wool, but can be used for any type of fiber.