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.
Distaff, Device used in hand spinning in which individual fibres are drawn out of a mass of prepared fibres held on a stick (the distaff), twisted together to form a continuous strand, and wound on a second stick (the spindle). It is most often used for making linen; wool does not require a distaff (see carding).