A name primarily used as a surname, first being found in the old Gaelic region of Scotland. It is old Scottish tradition that the family that was the tightest and stingiest of the village would be given the surname to show everyone of there stingy ways and warn furture generations to be weary of their stingy ways.
Woah have you seen a stingy Sweeney recently?,
No, I think heâs out in the woods washing himself.