Stugotch

So lately Julia keeps using this word that sounds like "Stugotch." As in, "You! Stugotch!"

Knowing that her teacher, the wonderful Miss Jessica, grew up in Germany I figured that this was simply the word "stop!" in German since she was using it in the context of it meaning stop. I even asked Julia if that's what stop was in German and she said yes.

This morning as I dropped the kids off to school I asked Jessica how to spell "Stugotch" correctly and she looked at me like I might have had a morning cocktail before dropping the kids off. So I explained what was going on.

Turns out that there is no word...at least in German.