What the British call a ‘woolly hat’ or a ‘bobble hat’ is in Canada called a ‘tuque’ (variably spelt ‘touque’ or ‘toque’).
I still use it, as I love the sound of it.
Wikipedia informs us that…
The word toque is from Middle Breton, the language spoken by Breton immigrants at the founding of New France. In Modern Breton, it is spelled “tok”, and it just means hat. In Old Breton, it was spelled “toc”.
The tuque is similar to the Phrygian cap, and, as such, during the 1837 Patriotes Rebellion, a red tuque became a symbol of French-Canadian nationalism. The symbol was revived briefly by the Front de libération du Québec in the 1960s.[6] It is considered outerwear and is not commonly worn indoors.
The word tuque is etymologically related to the name of the chef’s toque, an alternate spelling. Also occasionally spelled touque, although the latter is not considered a standard spelling by the Canadian Oxford Dictionary.[7][8]