Definition of "Janice"

"Yes, Mommy," answered Janice. Then she turned to her friend and asked, "Shall I wear my light chintz and kenton kerchief, or my purple and white striped Persian?""Sufficiently smart for a country lass, Jan," cried her friend.

1899, Paul Leicester Ford, chapter I, in Janice Meredith

"Now class," she said, "my name is Mrs. Chubbie. I know how most of you would like to pronounce it, but the correct pronunciation is Mrs. Shew-bay.""It's Jan-eece," the goth-girl says."Pardon me?" Mrs Shew-bay asks very properly."My name is pronounced Jan-eece. Not Janice." The whole class tries to stop from laughing out loud at this. "I've changed since last year. Janice is the name of some average, boring student. Do I look average to you?"

1999, Peter McPhee, Runner, pages 37–8