from a short form of a nickname derived from Italian
scacciare ‘to drive or chase away’.
from Sicilian
scacciari ‘to squash’, ‘to crush’, applied as a metonymic
occupational name for someone who crushed grapes or pressed olives, or
possibly as a nickname for a bully.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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