7 letters · 14 points in Scrabble
originEither 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 3.0