The story
- Italian · derived fromcrimine“crime”
- English todaycriminy
Either from Italian crimine (“crime”), or a minced oath from "Christ's money" (in reference to the silver that Judas was paid for betraying Jesus), or a deformation of Gemini (which was recorded as an oath from the 1660s). First attested in the 1680s.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.